that it is equally applicable to things and persons--it may be well to
gather together in a single group the several definitions we have
reached.

Intrinsic goodness expresses the fulfillment of function in the
construction of an organism.

By an organism is meant such an assemblage of active and differing
parts that in it each part both aids and is aided by all the others.

Extrinsic goodness is found when an object employs an already
constituted wholeness to further the wholeness of others.

A part is good when it furnishes that and that only which may add
value to other parts.

A greater good is one more largely contributory to the organism as its
end.

A higher good is one more fully expressive of that end.

Probably, too, it will be found convenient to set down here a couple
of other definitions which will hereafter be explained and employed. A
good act is the expression of selfhood as service. By an ideal we mean
a mental picture of a better state of existence than we feel has
actually been reached.



REFERENCES ON MISCONCEPTIONS OF GOODNESS