Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-317) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the relation between being and goodness -- The metaphysics of goodness and the doctrine of the transcendentals / Scott MacDonald -- Good as transcendental and the transcendence of the good / Jan A. Aertsen -- Saint Thomas on De hebdomadibus / Ralph McInerny -- Being and goodness / Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann -- The transcendentality of goodness and the human will / Mark D. Jordan -- Evil and the transcendentality of goodness : Suárez's solution to the problem of positive evils / Jorge J.E. Gracia -- Aquinas on faith and goodness / Eleonore Stump -- A general problem of creation : why would God create anything at all? / Norman Kretzmann -- A particular problem of creation : why would God create this world? / Norman Kretzmann -- The best of all possible worlds / William E. Mann -- Metaphysical dependence, independence, and perfection / Thomas V. Morris -- Appendix: Boethius's De hebdomadibus / translated by Scott MacDonald.
Appendix : Boethius's De hebdomadibus / translated by Scott MacDonald.