Being and Goodness

The Concept of the Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology

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ID19939999
EditorsScott Macdonald (0000-0002-3200-6031)
Year1990
Pages336
Publication date1990-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBeing and Goodness (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/9781501728372
OpenAlexW4245536464
Open LibraryOL33753251M
ISBN9781501728372
LanguageEN
Citations received3

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

Goodness of fit · Statistics · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Mathematics · Bien · Das Gute · Dios · Essays · Godhet · Goed en kwaad · Good and evil · Metafísica · Metafysica · Metafysikk · Metaphysics · Metaphysik · Métaphysique · Natürliche Theologie · Philosophical theology · Philosophy · Religionsfilosofi · Teología natural · Théologie · Théologie philosophique

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