Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Illustrious, therefore, both in his life and in his death,\r\nSocrates left very many disciples of his philosophy, who\r\nvied with one another in desire for proficiency in handling\r\nthose moral questions which concern the chief good\r\n(<i>summum bonum</i>), the possession of which can make a man\r\nblessed; and because, in the disputations of Socrates, where\r\nhe raises all manner of questions, makes assertions, and\r\nthen demolishes them, it did not evidently appear what he\r\nheld to be the chief good, every one took from these disputations\r\nwhat pleased him best, and every one placed the\r\nfinal good<a id=\"FNanchor_293_293\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_293_293\">[293]</a> in whatever it appeared to himself to consist.\r\nNow, that which is called the final good is that at which,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_310\">[Pg 310]</a></span>\r\nwhen one has arrived, he is blessed. But so diverse were\r\nthe opinions held by those followers of Socrates concerning\r\nthis final good, that (a thing scarcely to be credited with\r\nrespect to the followers of one master) some placed the chief\r\ngood in pleasure, as Aristippus, others in virtue, as Antisthenes.\r\nIndeed, it were tedious to recount the various\r\nopinions of various disciples.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK EIGHTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-565"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5b0e8271b22f651a063f80fe80d4441bca512d3e78cce52e493e890116a9f2ba","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_293_293","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_293_293","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_293_293\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_293_293\"><span class=\"label\">[293]</span></a> Finem boni.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_293_293","text_sha256":"6307c991ce6226478ed39a73a56da827ecb8e4fa19b550cdf4ccc765a4d666c4","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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