- Are goodness and being the same really?
- Granted that they differ only in idea, which is prior in thought?
- Granted that being is prior, is every being good?
- To what cause should goodness be reduced?
- Does goodness consist in mode, species, and order?
- Is goodness divided into the virtuous, the useful, and the pleasant?
"It is because the contemporary alternatives seem so one-sided and are not more evidently solutions to the problems which Thomas faced, and partly solved, that we return to him and to the tradition of theology and philosophy in which his Summa Theologiae appears: theology as the science of the first principle and this as the total knowledge of reality in its unity." -- Wayne J. Hankey, God in Himself (Oxford University Press, 1987), p.159.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
The goodness of God
Q5 has treated goodness in general in six articles: