Metaphysics Of Goodness

Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438477442

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Metaphysics of Goodness by Robert Cummings Neville Pdf

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.

Author : Scott Charles MacDonald
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0801497795

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Being and Goodness by Scott Charles MacDonald Pdf

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...

Author : Richard Carrier
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452059266

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Sense and Goodness Without God by Richard Carrier Pdf

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.

Author : Scott MacDonald
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501728372

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Being and Goodness by Scott MacDonald Pdf

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.

Author : David S. Oderberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000712506

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The Metaphysics of Good and Evil by David S. Oderberg Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438477435

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Metaphysics of Goodness by Robert Cummings Neville Pdf

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

Author : Christopher Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1103 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134279890

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Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and God by Christopher Hughes Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher V. Mirus
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813235462

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Being is Better Than Not Being by Christopher V. Mirus Pdf

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.

Author : Robert C. Neville
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791447170

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Boston Confucianism by Robert C. Neville Pdf

Argues that Confucianism can be important to the contemporary, global conversation of philosophy and should not be confined to an East Asian context.

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas),John Patrick Rowan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 1623400511

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Commentary on Metaphysics: Books 7-12 by Saint Thomas (Aquinas),John Patrick Rowan Pdf

"Foundational in its consideration of being and the transcendentals, the Metaphysics of Aristotle is a dense and difficult work on its own. This volume contains the first half of St. Thomas's commentary on the Metaphysics, beginning with discussing the views of Aristotle's predecessors and moving towards a discussion of being"--

Author : Gyula Klima
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527540149

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Being, Goodness and Truth (Volume 16 by Gyula Klima Pdf

This volume considers the Aristotelian virtue-ethics tradition as it develops in the writings of Thomas Aquinas. Part One studies the types of virtues Aquinas believes are held by Christians in a state of grace. Aquinas’s intriguing account is apparently fraught with inconsistencies, which have split contemporary interpreters over not only how to understand Aquinas on this matter, but also as to whether it is even possible to provide a consistent interpretation of his doctrine. This book brings together scholarship that reflects the various sides of the debate. Part Two explores a Thomistic synthesis regarding Aquinas’s account of the good as telos or end that emerges in the seventeenth century, as well as what promise his virtue ethics holds today, arguing that Aquinas’ hylomorphic understanding of human beings as matter-form composites furnishes a robust moral accounting that seems unavailable to alternative, reductive materialist accounts.

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Studies in Philosophy & the Hi
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813232485

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The Voiding of Being by William Desmond Pdf

"The author amplifies important themes in the unfolding of modern metaphysics, exploring diverse aspects of current skepticism and offering a defense in terms of his metaxological metaphysics. Along the way he engages both the long tradition and more modern writers, such as Heidegger and Marion"--

Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107393776

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The Fragility of Goodness by Martha C. Nussbaum Pdf

This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made a profound contribution to these questions, yet neither the problems nor the Greek views of them have received the attention they deserve. This book thus recovers a central dimension of Greek thought and addresses major issues in contemporary ethical theory. One of its most original aspects is its interrelated treatment of both literary and philosophical texts. The Fragility of Goodness has proven to be important reading for philosophers and classicists, and its non-technical style makes it accessible to any educated person interested in the difficult problems it tackles. This edition, first published in 2001, features a preface by Martha Nussbaum.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781135894627

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The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maria Antonaccio,William Schweiker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226021122

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Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness by Maria Antonaccio,William Schweiker Pdf

A HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF THE WRITINGS OF IRIS MURDOCH.