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Being and Goodness: The Concept of Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical
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Being and Goodness: The Concept of Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology Paperback - 1990 - 1st Edition

by Scott MacDonald (Editor)


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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.

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The medieval metaphysical doctrine of the transcendentals is well known but not well understood.

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  • Title Being and Goodness: The Concept of Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology
  • Author Scott MacDonald (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1990-12-11
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780801497797 / 0801497795
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90-5519
  • Dewey Decimal Code 111.84

About the author

Scott MacDonald is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa.

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