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 re...

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