Good and Evil

The Good is the highest Form: source of all being, beauty, and truth.

The good for humans is eudaimonia: flourishing through virtuous activity over a complete life.

Good and evil lie only in our own judgments, never in external things.

Evil is not a thing but a privation: the corruption or absence of good.

Every agent acts for the good. Evil is the failure of a good: a defect in being or action.

Good and evil are names for what we desire or avoid, not objective properties of things.

The only unconditionally good thing is a good will: acting from duty, not inclination.

The good is happiness: pleasure and the absence of pain. The right maximizes the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

Conscience is the internalized aggression of civilization. Good and evil are psychological residues, not eternal truths.