4p36sc.md (782B)
1 Someone may ask how it would be, if the highest good of 2 those who follow after virtue were not common to all? Would it 3 not then follow, as above (IV. xxxiv.), that men living in 4 obedience to reason, that is (IV. xxxv.), men in so far as they 5 agree in nature, would be at variance one with another? To such 6 an inquiry, I make answer, that it follows not accidentally but 7 from the very nature of reason, that main's highest good is 8 common to all, inasmuch as it is deduced from the very essence of 9 man, in so far as defined by reason; and that a man could 10 neither be, nor be conceived without the power of taking pleasure 11 in this highest good. For it belongs to the essence of the human 12 mind (II. xlvii.), to have an adequate knowledge of the eternal 13 and infinite essence of God. 14 15