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Being and Goodness : The Concept of the Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology /
The intuition that there is a necessary connection between being and goodness has guided a philosophical tradition that includes Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, and Aquinas; but surprisingly, the details of this legacy remain relatively unknown. In exploring this tradition of philosophical re...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
1991.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the relation between being and goodness
- The metaphysics of goodness and the doctrine of the transcendentals / Scott MacDonald
- Good as transcendental and the transcendence of the good / Jan A. Aertsen
- Saint Thomas on De hebdomadibus / Ralph McInerny
- Being and goodness / Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann
- The transcendentality of goodness and the human will / Mark D. Jordan
- Evil and the transcendentality of goodness : Suárez's solution to the problem of positive evils / Jorge J.E. Gracia
- Aquinas on faith and goodness / Eleonore Stump
- A general problem of creation : why would God create anything at all? / Norman Kretzmann
- A particular problem of creation : why would God create this world? / Norman Kretzmann
- The best of all possible worlds / William E. Mann
- Metaphysical dependence, independence, and perfection / Thomas V. Morris
- Appendix: Boethius's De hebdomadibus / translated by Scott MacDonald.
- Appendix : Boethius's De hebdomadibus / translated by Scott MacDonald.