It observes that there must be some cause for the goodness we find in the things around us (Monologion §1). Although goodness manifests itself in different ways, goodness itself should have the same meaning in each case. Otherwise we would have no unified idea of goodness, only a welter of different ideas that are misleadingly expressed by the same word. We need, therefore, to suppose that there is a cause of goodness, which is the source of this shared nature that we find in all good things.4 As the cause of all goodness, this source will itself be good, indeed the most good and great of all
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