Sidenote: The Man who makes Riches his Chief Good is haunted by Fears and Perplexities: Ch.
Brief and simple as the discussion is, however, we shall misapprehend it unless we bear in mind that Coheleth is arguing, not against wealth, but against mistaking wealth for the Chief Good.
The question here is of the summum bonum or chief good.
But the man who places his chief good in pleasure, must judge of everything by his sensations, not by his reason, and must pronounce those things best which are most pleasant.
Hence, they defined virtue to be man's chief good; and schools of moral virtue were accordingly instituted by Socrates, and by other heathen philosophers.
We answer: As the chief evil has made a breach upon our nature, and has infused poison into its very springs; so must the chief Good revisit and renew our nature, that it may be assimilated to itself.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chief good" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
