But absolute goals don't necessarily lead firms to reward performance. (hbr.org)
We are the first civilisation to treat monetary accumulation as an absolute goal, and it has obscured the whole of our discourse about shared well - being, or the «common good.» (nakedpastor.com)
Case objected that «Troeltsch can speak of an «essential» Christianity in whose history the fundamental «ideal» is being realized through progress toward the «absolute goal». (religion-online.org)