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EThica is that Art which directs us how to act always conformably to right reason: Its chief principle is this, Do as you would be done by.
It teacheth us that God is our last end, because he only is Bonum Suffi∣ciens, the Sufficient Good, nothing else being able to content us. It teacheth likewise that we can never love any thing but under the shew and appearance of Good, whereof it offereth three sorts, Honour Profit and Pleasure.
God alone is our Objective Beatitude or Happiness, (as they speak in the Schools,) our Formal Beatitude is that operation of the Mind by which we possess God, which is the Intuitive Vision or Contemplation of God.
This Art sheweth that the Internal Principles of Humane Actions are either Natural, as Powers; or Acquired, as Habits: That the Understanding moves the Will to act, and the Will our Un∣derstanding; that a Habit being gene∣rated by the repetition of Acts, giveth the Soul not the real power of acting, but only enables it to act more easily.
Aristotle, Seneca, Plato, Cicero, &c.