By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing - Is freedom an end or a means?... For many people, the former is problematic. The Judeo-Christian message is that God created us for the good, ultimately for the Summum Bonum, the Highest Good, i.e., God. Thomist philosophy identified the “ends” of the intellect as truth and of the will as “good.” When a person chooses to do something, he chooses to do what he regards as good. He may be mistaken, but human action always operates under the attraction of the “good.”