E-021 SEP CTHE - God and Other Ultimates (Thesis 2 Excerpt)

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# God and Other Ultimates
 
**Source:** https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/god-ultimates/
 
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## 1. Conceptual Foundations and Motivations
 
### 1.1 Definition of “ultimate”
 
Brahman, the Dao, emptiness, God, the One, Reasonableness—there, in alphabetical order, are names of the central subjects of concern in what are commonly parsed as some of the world’s religions, philosophies and quasi-religious-philosophies. [ 1 ] They are all names for what is ultimate, at least on some uses of the names (for instance, “God” is not always taken to be ultimate, more soon). But what is it to be ultimate, in this sense?