Being and goodness: the concept of the good in metaphysics and philosophical theology

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Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press (1991)
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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...

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BJ1401.B45 1991

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0801423120

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10.7591/9781501728372

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Good as Transcendental and the Transcendence of the Good.J. A. Aertsen
The Transcendentality of Goodness and the Human Will.Mark Jordan
A general problem of creation: why would God create anything at all?Norman Kretzmann
The Metaphysics of Goodness and the Doctrine of the Transcendentals.Scott MacDonald
The Relation Between Being and Goodness.Scott MacDonald
The best of all possible worlds.William E. Mann
Aquinas on Faith and Goodness.Eleonore Stump
Being and goodness.Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann

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