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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacDonald, Scott, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical theology.

Metaphysics.

Good and evil.

First philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 328 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Texts

INTRODUCTION: The Relation between Being and Goodness / MacDonald, Scott

PART ONE: THE CONCEPT OF THE GOOD IN METAPHYSICS

CHAPTER 1. The Metaphysics of Goodness and the Doctrine of the Transcendentals / MacDonald, Scott

CHAPTER 2. Good as Transcendental and the Transcendence of the Good / Aertsen, Jan A.

CHAPTER 3. Saint Thomas on De hebdomadibus / Mcinerny, Ralph

CHAPTER 4. Being and Goodness / Stump, Eleonore / Kretzmann, Norman

CHAPTER 5. The Transcendentality of Goodness and the H urn an Will / Jordan, Mark D.

CHAPTER 6. Evil and the Transcendentality of Goodness: Suarez's Solution to the Problem of Positive Evils / Gracia, Jorge J. E.

PART TWO: THE CONCEPT OF THE GOOD IN PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY

CHAPTER 7. Aquinas on Faith and Goodness / Stump, Eleonore

CHAPTER 8. A General Problem of Creation: Why Would God Create Anything at All? / Kretzmann, Norman

CHAPTER 9. A Particular Problem of Creation: Why Would God Create This World? / Kretzmann, Norman

CHAPTER 10. The Best of All Possible Worlds / Mann, William E.

CHAPTER 11. Metaphysical Dependence, Independence, and Perfection / Morris, Thomas V.

APPENDIX: Boethius's De hebdomadibus

Bibliography

Index

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-317) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

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ISBN:

9781501728372

1501728377

OCLC:

1080549599