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There is not   a moral   characterization or even an idea   of “value” contained in the statement “Deus est summum bonum. ” The name summum bonum is rather the purest expression for the causality which is appropriate to the purely real, in accordance with its effectuating the persistence of everything that can persist (cf. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theol. I, qu. 1-23). Ontologically understood, the bonum thought with regard to the summum ens is the echo   of the Platonic agathon, that is, what absolutely makes capable, namely for beings as such – what makes possible: the condition of possibility (cf. “Plato  ’s Doctrine of Truth”). [GA14  ]