Definitions
"1. Good is the object of moral approbation. The highest good is, therefore, the ultimate object of such approbation, the end of action.
"2. Pleasure is that state of consciousness which follows upon the unimpeded performance (as such) of its function, by one or more of the parts of our organism."
Proposition I
"The Good is relative to our faculties. For no object can affect us except through our faculties (Axiom 3); but to be known by us is to affect us;
"Therefore, nothing can be known except through our faculties, or (in other words) except in relation to our faculties;
"But the Good, or End of Action, is a possible object of knowledge (Axiom 2);
"Hence the Good is relative to our faculties.
"Corollary 1.—The highest good of man at any time is relative to his faculties at that time.
"Corollary 2.—Since ideas derive their elements from experience, the idea of perfect Good, or God, can only be an idealization of humanity.