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The Metaphysics of Good and Evil

Author : David S. Oderberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000712508
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Good and Evil written by David S. Oderberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysics of Good and Evil is the first, full-length contemporary defence, from the perspective of analytic philosophy, of the Scholastic theory of good and evil – the theory of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and most medieval and Thomistic philosophers. Goodness is analysed as obedience to nature. Evil is analysed as the privation of goodness. Goodness, surprisingly, is found in the non-living world, but in the living world it takes on a special character. The book analyses various kinds of goodness, showing how they fit into the Scholastic theory. The privation theory of evil is given its most comprehensive contemporary defence, including an account of truthmakers for truths of privation and an analysis of how causation by privation should be understood. In the end, all evil is deviance – a departure from the goodness prescribed by a thing’s essential nature. Key Features: Offers a comprehensive defence of a venerable metaphysical theory, conducted using the concepts and methods of analytic philosophy. Revives a much neglected approach to the question of good and evil in their most general nature. Shows how Aristotelian-Thomistic theory has more than historical relevance to a fundamental philosophical issue, but can be applied in a way that is both defensible and yet accessible to the modern philosopher. Provides what, for the Scholastic philosopher, is arguably the only solid metaphysical foundation for a separate treatment of the origins of morality.

Being and Goodness

Author : Scott Charles MacDonald
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801497797
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Being and Goodness written by Scott Charles MacDonald and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...

Metaphysics of Goodness

Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438477449
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics of Goodness written by Robert Cummings Neville and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Metaphysics of Goodness, Robert Cummings Neville extends Alfred North Whitehead's project of cultural studies, which was based on a new metaphysics that Whitehead developed in Adventures of Ideas. Neville's focus is value or goodness in many modes. The metaphysics treated in this book derive from the Platonic and Confucian traditions, with significant modifications of Whitehead, Peirce, Dewey, Confucius, Xunzi, and Zhou Dunyi. Part one develops a theory of form based on a metaphysics of harmony. Part two elaborates a theory of art based on a metaphysics of beauty. Part three sketches a theory of personhood based on a metaphysics of obligation. Part four discusses civilization in a systematic way based on a metaphysics of flourishing. Throughout the book, Neville elaborates a theory of interpretation that is inspired by Peirce, Dewey, and Xunzi but is not limited to their ideas. While the reasoning of the book is concise, it employs methodologies from many kinds of philosophy, art criticism, ethics, and cultural studies, and sees philosophy as needing to learn from all these disciplines.

Being and Goodness

Author : Scott MacDonald
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501728377
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Being and Goodness written by Scott MacDonald and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sense and Goodness Without God

Author : Richard Carrier
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452059268
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Sense and Goodness Without God written by Richard Carrier and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-02-23 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God does not exist, then what does? Is there good and evil, and should we care? How do we know what’s true anyway? And can we make any sense of this universe, or our own lives? Sense and Goodness answers all these questions in lavish detail, without complex jargon. A complete worldview is presented and defended, covering every subject from knowledge to art, from metaphysics to morality, from theology to politics. Topics include free will, the nature of the universe, the meaning of life, and much more, arguing from scientific evidence that there is only a physical, natural world without gods or spirits, but that we can still live a life of love, meaning, and joy.

Metaphysics of Goodness

Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438477430
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics of Goodness written by Robert Cummings Neville and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a theory of culture based on a metaphysics that elaborates on the Platonic and Confucian traditions. In Metaphysics of Goodness, Robert Cummings Neville extends Alfred North Whitehead’s project of cultural studies, which was based on a new metaphysics that Whitehead developed in Adventures of Ideas. Neville’s focus is value or goodness in many modes. The metaphysics treated in this book derive from the Platonic and Confucian traditions, with significant modifications of Whitehead, Peirce, Dewey, Confucius, Xunzi, and Zhou Dunyi. Part one develops a theory of form based on a metaphysics of harmony. Part two elaborates a theory of art based on a metaphysics of beauty. Part three sketches a theory of personhood based on a metaphysics of obligation. Part four discusses civilization in a systematic way based on a metaphysics of flourishing. Throughout the book, Neville elaborates a theory of interpretation that is inspired by Peirce, Dewey, and Xunzi but is not limited to their ideas. While the reasoning of the book is concise, it employs methodologies from many kinds of philosophy, art criticism, ethics, and cultural studies, and sees philosophy as needing to learn from all these disciplines. “Neville’s work is informed by a lifelong engagement with the most important philosophers in history, including Plato, Aristotle, Whitehead, and Dewey. Here, he offers an important argument that there is beauty not only in how people see the world, but also in the world itself.” — Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University

Metaphysics of Goodness

Author : Robert C. Neville
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438477428
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (774 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics of Goodness written by Robert C. Neville and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and God

Author : Christopher Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134279892
Total Pages : 1103 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and God written by Christopher Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 1103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Aquinas is one of the most important figures in the history of philosophy and philosophical theology. Relying on a deep understanding of Aristotle, Aquinas developed a metaphysical framework that is comprehensive, detailed, and flexible. Within that framework, he formulated a range of strikingly original and carefully explicated views in areas including natural theology, philosophy of mind, philosophical psychology, and ethics. In this book, Christopher Hughes focuses on Aquinas’s thought from an analytic philosophical perspective. After an overview of Aquinas’s life and works, Hughes discusses Aquinas’s metaphysics, including his conception of substance, matter, and form, and his account of essence and existence; and his theory of the nature of human beings, including his critique of a substance dualism that Aquinas attributes to Plato, but is usually associated with Descartes. In the final chapters, Hughes discusses Aquinas’s account of the existence and nature of God, and his treatment of the problem of evil, as well as his ideas about the relation of goodness to being, choice, and happiness. Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and God is essential reading for students and scholars of Aquinas, and anyone interested in philosophy of religion or the history of medieval philosophy.

Being is Better Than Not Being

Author : Christopher V. Mirus
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813235464
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Being is Better Than Not Being written by Christopher V. Mirus and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his contemplative works on nature, Aristotle twice appeals to the general principle that being is better than not being. Taking his cue from this claim, Christopher V. Mirus offers an extended, systematic account of how Aristotle understands being itself to be good. Mirus begins with the human, examining Aristotle’s well-known claim that the end of a human life is the good of the human substance as such—which turns out to be the good of the human capacity for thought. Human thought, however, is not concerned with human affairs alone. It is also contemplative, and contemplation is oriented toward the beauty of its objects. In each of the three branches of contemplative thought—mathematics, natural science, and theology—the intelligibility of being renders it beautiful to thought. Both in nature and in human life, moreover, the being that is beautiful through its intelligibility serves also as an end of motion and of action; hence it counts not only as beautiful (kalon), but also as good (agathon). The persistent concern of thought with the beautiful reveals what is at stake for human beings in Aristotle’s larger metaphysics of the good: in the connection between goodness and actuality that structures his natural science and metaphysics, in his explicit claim that being is better than not being, and in his concepts of order and determinacy, which help connect being with goodness. These in turn shed light on his concepts of the complete and the self-sufficient, on his teleological understanding of the four elements, and on the curious role of the honorable in his natural science and metaphysics.

Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern

Author : Christopher Ben Simpson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253221242
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern written by Christopher Ben Simpson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engages two provocative contemporary philosophers of religion

Being is Better Than Not Being

Author : Christopher V. Mirus
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813235464
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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The Metaphysics of Goodness in Medieval Philosophy Before Aquinas

Author : Scott Charles MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Goodness in Medieval Philosophy Before Aquinas written by Scott Charles MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135894620
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evil in Aristotle

Author : Pavlos Kontos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107161975
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Evil in Aristotle written by Pavlos Kontos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the first full study of Aristotle's notion of evil and sheds light on its content, potential, and influence.

An Introduction to Metaphysics of Knowledge

Author : Yves R. Simon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Metaphysics of Knowledge written by Yves R. Simon and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is the product of several years of collaboration at a distance between two people who both knew Yres R. Simon personally and admired his work. The question raised by Simon more than half a century ago, when this book was first published, are still with us: What is the nature of knowledge? What kind of activity is it to know? What is involved in the development of human knowledge? If one had to describe Simon's accomplishment by reducing it to a single point, what he succeeded in showing was that an ontology of knowledge based on common experience disproves all idealism and leads to realism by strictest necessity.

Philosophy

Author : James K. Dew, Jr.
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493416839
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy written by James K. Dew, Jr. and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two experienced educators offer an up-to-date introduction to philosophy from a Christian perspective that covers the four major areas of philosophical thought: epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and ethics. Written from an analytic perspective, the book introduces key concepts and issues within the main areas of philosophical inquiry in a comprehensive yet accessible way, inviting readers on a quest for goodness, truth, and beauty that ultimately points to Jesus as the source of all.

Soul of Goodness

Author : Christopher Phillips
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1633887898
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Soul of Goodness written by Christopher Phillips and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Phillips has devoted his life to carrying the torch of Socrates and his quest to “Know Thyself.” Yet upon the death of his beloved father and mentor, the originator of the burgeoning global Socrates Café movement had little choice but to confront the inescapable truth: that there are some things we cannot know for sure. This moving, insightful and ultimately hopeful and helpful blend of memoir and philosophical exploration begins in Phillips’ native stomping grounds of the tiny volcanic island of Nisyros, Greece and unfurls through space and time as the author explores the connections between his immediate circumstances and the eternal wisdom of popular philosophers. – In this personal and probing book, the acclaimed ‘philosopher for the people’ shares lessons gleaned from his intimate and often unexpected encounters with uncommonly perceptive human beings both living and long deceased, in the form of weary travelers and some of history’s greatest thinkers, from Heraclitus to Dr. Cornel West. Along the way, he charts a pathway for sculpting what Shakespeare describes as a “soul of goodness,” which meshes with Plato’s paradigm-shattering conception of the “healthiness of soul.” For those struggling to overcome the hopelessness that can result from grievous loss, setback, or betrayal – what Phillips’ touchstone Percy Blythe Shelley calls life circumstances “darker than death or night” – the author spotlights, with philosophical prescriptions both timely and timeless, how to cultivate a ‘Socratic spirit’ that leads to renewed love, forbearance, and hope at the other end of the tunnel.