4–5. Perfection and beatitude when the end is attained; the highest good defined as last and most perfect
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4.Each thing, if it attains its good and end, is perfect — or, if its nature is intelligent, blessed.For no animal that lacks knowledge can be blessed, and it does not fall to things without reason to be blessed, as Augustine teaches in the book of eighty-three questions, question 1; but on the contrary it is imperfect, wretched, and unhappy if it falls from and is deprived of its end and good.
5.The highest good is called also the last, because it is subjected to no other as a means, or is not at all ordered to the attaining of something higher and greater; and most perfect, because it excludes every defect and need, and gives itself to the one who has it so that it may be perfectly well with him.
Latin
4. Una quaeque res, si bonum, finemque suum assequatur, perfecta est, sive, si natura sit intelligens, beata. Nam nullum animal, quod scientia caret, beatum esse potest, & non cadit in rationis expertia, ut beata sint, docente Augustino lib. 83 quaestionum, quaest. 1, contra vero imperfecta, misera & infelix est, si fine & bono suo excidat ac privetur. 5. Summum bonum dicitur & ultimum, quia nulli alteri, tanquam medium, subjicitur, seu ad aliud superius & majus consequendum minime ordinatur: perfectissimum, quia omnem defectum & indigentiam excludit, & habenti sese dat, ut ei perfecte bene sit.