John Locke's Search For The Good

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Contrastly, Locke does admit to a summum bonum, he describes the greatest good as the “infinite eternal joys of Heaven.” Locke elaborates on the greatest good by describing man’s desire for the good and the role of the will in attaining that good. Locke explains that man acts in accordance to the greatest good when he desires it. And it is only in desiring the good that man’s will is prompted and he is moved to act in accordance with that desire. He explains, “the infinitly greater possible good should regularly and constantly determine the will in all the successive actions it directs…” However, he clarifies man’s search for the good by elaborating on man’s desire. He says, the “infinitly greatest confessed good being often neglected, to

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