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  1. Being and goodness: the concept of the good in metaphysics and philosophical theology.Scott Charles MacDonald (ed.) - 1991 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
    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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  2. Ultimate ends in practical reasoning: Aquinas's aristotelian moral psychology and Anscombe's fallacy.Scott MacDonald - 1991 - Philosophical Review 100 (1):31-66.
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    Augustine.Scott MacDonald & Christopher Kirwan - 1992 - Philosophical Review 101 (3):638.
  4. Primal Sin.Scott MacDonald - 1998 - In Gareth B. Matthews (ed.), The Augustinian Tradition. University of California Press.
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    The divine nature.Scott MacDonald - 2001 - In Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Augustine. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 71--90.
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    Christian Faith.Scott MacDonald - 1993 - In Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann (eds.), Reasoned faith: essays in philosophical theology in honor of Norman Kretzmann. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
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    (1 other version)Theory of Knowledge.Scott MacDonald - 1993 - In Norman Kretzmann & Eleonore Stump (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. pp. 160.
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  8. (1 other version)The Esse/Essentia Argument in Aquinas's De ente et essentia.Scott Charles MacDonald - 1984 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (2):157-72.
    The purpose of the article is to offer a detailed exegetical analysis of the argument in chapter four of "de ente et essentia" in which aquinas argues for a distinction between "esse" and essence and to develop an interpretation of it on the basis of the analysis. I argue that the reconstructed argument shows that aquinas argues for a real distinction and that he establishes it earlier in the argument than some commentators have thought. I criticize a rival interpretation of (...)
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    Aristotle and the Homonymy of the Good.Scott Macdonald - 1989 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 71 (2):150-74.
  10. Aquinas's Libertarian Account of Free Choice.Scott MacDonald - 1998 - Revue International de Philosophie 52 (204):309-28.
     
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    (1 other version)The Relation Between Being and Goodness.Scott MacDonald - 1991 - In Scott Charles MacDonald (ed.), Being and goodness: the concept of the good in metaphysics and philosophical theology. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
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    Aquinas's moral theory: essays in honor of Norman Kretzmann.Scott Charles MacDonald & Eleonore Stump - 1998 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
    This volume explores the ethical dimensions of a wide selection of philosophical and theological topics in Aquinas's texts.
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  13. Petit larceny, the beginning of all sin: Augustine’s theft of the Pears.Scott Macdonald - 2003 - Faith and Philosophy 20 (4):393-414.
    In his reflections on his adolescent theft of a neighbor’s pears, Augustine first claims that he did it just because it was wicked. But he then worries that there is something unacceptable in that claim. Some readers have found in this account Augustine’s rejection of the principle that all voluntary action is done for the sake of some perceived good. I argue that Augustine intends his case to call the principle into question, but that he does not ultimately reject it. (...)
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  14. Excerpts from John Martin Fischer's Discussion with Members of the Audience.Scott MacDonald, John Martin Fischer, Carl Ginet, Joseph Margolis, Mark Case, Elie Noujain, Robert Kane & Derk Pereboom - 2000 - The Journal of Ethics 4 (4):408 - 417.
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    The Metaphysics of Goodness and the Doctrine of the Transcendentals.Scott MacDonald - 1991 - In Scott Charles MacDonald (ed.), Being and goodness: the concept of the good in metaphysics and philosophical theology. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
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    Boethius’s Claim that all Substances are Good.Scott Macdonald - 1988 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 70 (3):245-79.
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    What is Philosophical Theology?Scott MacDonald - 2009 - In Kevin Timpe (ed.), Arguing about religion. New York: Routledge.
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    Ockham on Concepts.John Marenbon & Scott MacDonald - 2004 - Routledge.
    William of Ockham is known to be one of the major figures of the late Middle Ages. The scope and significance of his doctrine of human thought, however, has been a controversial issue among scholars in the last decade, and this book presents a full discussion of recent developments. Claude Panaccio proposes a richly documented and entirely original reinterpretation of Ockham's theory of concepts as a coherent blend of representationalism, conceptual atomism, and non reductionist nominalism, stressing in the process its (...)
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  19. Augustine, Confessions (ca. 400).Scott MacDonald - 2003 - In Jorge J. E. Gracia, Gregory M. Reichberg & Bernard N. Schumacher (eds.), The Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader's Guide. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 96.
     
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  20. (1 other version)Aquinas's Parasitic Cosmological Argument.Scott Macdonald - 1991 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1:119-155.
  21. Goodness as transcendental: The early thirteenth-century recovery of an aristotelian idea.Scott MacDonald - 1992 - Topoi 11 (2):173-186.
    In this paper I investigate the philosophical developments at the heart of what appears to be the earliest systematic formulation of the doctrine of the transcendentals by comparing the first questions of Philip the Chancellor''sSumma de bono (the so-called first treatise on the transcendentals — ca. 1230) with its immediate ancestor, a small group of questions from William of Auxerre''sSumma aurea (ca. 1220). I argue that Philip''s innovative position on the relation between being and goodness, the centerpiece of his doctrine (...)
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    Practical Reasoning and Reasons-Explanations: Aquinas's Account of Reasons Role in Action.Scott MacDonald - 1999 - In Scott MacDonald & Eleonore Stump (eds.), Aquinas's Moral Theory. Cornell University Press.
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    (1 other version)Synchronic Contingency, Instants of Nature, and Libertarian Freedom.Scott MacDonald - 1995 - Modern Schoolman 72 (2-3):169-174.
  24. Augustine's Cognitive Voluntarism in De trinitate 11.Scott MacDonald - forthcoming - In Emmanuel Bermon Gerard O'Daly (ed.), Le De Trinitate de saint Augustin : exégèse, logique et noétique.
     
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  25. How can one search for God?: The paradox of inquiry in Augustine's confessions.Scott Macdonald - 2008 - Metaphilosophy 39 (1):20–38.
    The Confessions recounts Augustine 's successful search for God. But Augustine worries that one cannot search for God if one does not already know God. That version of the paradox of inquiry dominates and structures Confessions 1–10. I draw connections between the dramatic opening lines of book 1 and the climactic discussion in book 10.26–38 and argue that the latter discussion contains Augustine 's resolution of the paradox of inquiry as it applies to the special case of searching for God. (...)
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    Norman Kretzmann 1928-1998.Carl Ginet, Scott MacDonald & Sydney Shoemaker - 1999 - Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 72 (5):210 - 212.
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    Augustine and neo-platonism.Scott MacDonald - 2004 - In Jorge J. E. Gracia & Jiyuan Yu (eds.), Uses and abuses of the classics: Western interpretations of Greek philosophy. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
    From very early on, Western philosophers have been obsessed with the understanding of a relatively few works of philosophy which have played a disproportionately large and fundamental role in developing the Western philosophical canon, dominating the curriculum in the past and in the present; there is no indication that they will not do so in the future.Uses and Abuses of the Classics examines the various ways in which the different periods of the history of philosophy have approached these texts. The (...)
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    Augustine’s Christian-Platonist Account of Goodness.Scott MacDonald - 1989 - New Scholasticism 63 (4):485-509.
  29. Aquinas's Moral Theory.Scott MacDonald & Eleonore Stump (eds.) - 1999 - Cornell University Press.
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    Augustine.Scott Macdonald - 2003 - In Jorge J. E. Gracia & Timothy B. Noone (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 154–171.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Wisdom, happiness, and virtue Sin, evil, and theodicy Will and personal agency Reason, understanding, and belief Method in philosophical theology God Soul, mind, and memory.
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  31. Boethius's De hebdomadibus.Scott MacDonald - 1988 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 70:274-79.
     
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    (1 other version)Editor’s Introduction.Scott MacDonald - 2000 - Medieval Philosophy & Theology 9 (2):3-5.
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    (1 other version)Egoistic Rationalism: Aquinas's Basis for Christian Morality.Scott MacDonald - 1990 - In Michael D. Beaty (ed.), Christian Theism and the Problems of Philosophy. University of Notre Dame Press.
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    (1 other version)Foundations in Aquinas's ethics.Scott MacDonald - 2008 - Social Philosophy and Policy 25 (1):350-367.
    Aquinas argues that practical reasoning requires foundations: first practical principles (ultimate ends) grasped by us per se from which deliberation proceeds. Contrary to the thesis of an important paper of Terence Irwin's, I deny that Aquinas advances two inconsistent conceptions of the scope of deliberation and, correspondingly, two inconsistent accounts of the content of the first practical principles presupposed by deliberation. On my account, Aquinas consistently takes first practical principles to be highly abstract, general, or formal ends, ends subject to (...)
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  35. (1 other version)Gilbert of Poitiers' Metaphysics of Goodness.Scott MacDonald - 1999 - Recherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales:57-77.
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    (1 other version)In Memoriam.Scott MacDonald - 1998 - Medieval Philosophy & Theology 7 (2):111-114.
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    The.Scott MacDonald - 1984 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (2).
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    The Christian Contribution to Medieval Philosophical Theology.Scott Macdonald - 1997 - In Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 91–98.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Christianity's Influence on the Aims and Methods of Medieval Philosophy Christianity's Influence on the Content of Medieval Philosophy Christianity as an External Constraint on Medieval Philosophy Works cited.
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    The Metaphysics of Goodness in Medieval Philosophy Before Aquinas: Appendixes.Scott Charles MacDonald - 1986 - University Microfilms International.
  40. The Role of Scientia in Augustine's Theory of Mind.Scott MacDonald - forthcoming - Medioevo.
     
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    Wyclif in His Times.Scott Macdonald - 1987 - Philosophical Books 28 (3):152-155.
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    Augustine's Confessions: Critical Essays.Paul Bloom, Gareth B. Matthews, Scott MacDonald, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Paul Helm, Ishtiyaque Haji, Garry Wills & Richard Sorabji - 2006 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Unique in all of literature, the Confessions combines frank and profound psychological insight into Augustine's formative years along with sophisticated and beguiling reflections on some of the most important issues in philosophy and theology. The essays contained in this volume, by some of the most distinguished recent and contemporary thinkers in the field, insightfully explore Augustinian themes not only with an eye to historical accuracy but also to gauge the philosophical acumen of Augustine's reflections.
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    Aquina's Ultimate Ends: A Reply to Grisez.Scott MacDonald - 2001 - American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (1):37-49.
    A large part of the ambitious project that Grisez sketches in his paper can reasonably be thought of as developing and extending in interesting ways ideas of Thomas Aquinas. But in Part IV of the paper Grisez dramatically parts company with Aquinas on what might seem a fundamental issue. Aquinas famously holds that human beings find their ultimate fulfillment in beatific vision of God. Grisez tells us that, as he understands that claim, it is false.
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    Between two worlds: An interview with Shirin Neshat.Scott MacDonald - 2004 - Feminist Studies 30 (3):620-659.
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    Interview with Lizzie Borden.Scott Macdonald - 1989 - Feminist Studies 15 (2):327.
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    On Universala.Scott Macdonald - 1986 - Philosophical Books 27 (4):208-211.
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  47. Reading Scripture Philosophically: Augustine on 'God made heaven and earth'.Scott MacDonald - forthcoming - In WIlliam E. Mann Gareth B. Matthews (ed.), God and Mind in Augustine's Confessions. Oxford University Press.
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    On a Complex Theory of a Simple God: An Investigation in Aquinas' Philosophical Theology. [REVIEW]Patricia Matthews & Scott MacDonald - 1992 - Philosophical Review 101 (4):956.
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    The Heritage of Wisdom: Essays in the History of Philosophy. [REVIEW]Scott MacDonald - 1990 - Philosophical Review 99 (1):138-142.
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    A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy. [REVIEW]Scott MacDonald - 1989 - Review of Metaphysics 43 (1):154-155.
    This volume is an important supplement to the two volumes in the series of Cambridge Histories covering the philosophy of the Middle Ages. Dronke's book, which adopts the format of the latter volume, is intended to fill the gap between them. It contains sixteen contributions by fifteen scholars. The contributions are arranged in four parts. The four essays in part 1, "Background," provide useful summaries of the intellectual inheritance that provides the cultural environment for what has been called the twelfth-century (...)
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