Being and Goodness : : The Concept of the Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology / / ed. by Scott MacDonald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Aertsen, Jan A.,; Gracia, Jorge J. E.,; Jordan, Mark D.,; Kretzmann, Norman,; MacDonald, Scott,; Mann, William E.,; Mcinerny, Ralph,; Morris, Thomas V.,; Stump, Eleonore,
• HerausgeberIn: MacDonald, Scott,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

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 reflection on the nature of goodness, the twelve essays in this book (all but two published here for the first time) present some of the best recent historical scholarship in medieval philosophy and make available to nonspecialists an array of sophisticated treatments of issues that remain central to metaphysics and philosophical theology.The contributors, leading philosophers and scholars of medieval philosophy, represent a variety of points of view and take diverse methodological approaches. They address the works of figures from Augustine and Boethius to Suarez, Descartes, and Leibniz, but focus particularly on thirteenth-century thinkers, especially Aquinas.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Texts -- INTRODUCTION: The Relation between Being and Goodness -- PART ONE: THE CONCEPT OF THE GOOD IN METAPHYSICS -- CHAPTER 1. The Metaphysics of Goodness and the Doctrine of the Transcendentals -- CHAPTER 2. Good as Transcendental and the Transcendence of the Good -- CHAPTER 3. Saint Thomas on De hebdomadibus -- CHAPTER 4. Being and Goodness -- CHAPTER 5. The Transcendentality of Goodness and the H urn an Will -- CHAPTER 6. Evil and the Transcendentality of Goodness: Suarez's Solution to the Problem of Positive Evils -- PART TWO: THE CONCEPT OF THE GOOD IN PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY -- CHAPTER 7. Aquinas on Faith and Goodness -- CHAPTER 8. A General Problem of Creation: Why Would God Create Anything at All? -- CHAPTER 9. A Particular Problem of Creation: Why Would God Create This World? -- CHAPTER 10. The Best of All Possible Worlds -- CHAPTER 11. Metaphysical Dependence, Independence, and Perfection -- APPENDIX: Boethius's De hebdomadibus -- Bibliography -- Index -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data