Dynamic transcendentals : truth, goodness, and beauty from a Thomistic perspective / / Alice M. Ramos
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Ramos Alice <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Dynamic transcendentals : truth, goodness, and beauty from a Thomistic perspective / / Alice M. Ramos
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 111.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Transcendentals |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | A metaphysics of the truth of creation: foundation of the desire for God -- Aquinas on measure -- The affections and the life of the mind -- Beauty and the perfection of being -- Evil, order, and providence -- The experience of vulnerability and shame -- On the good and glory -- Human life and the world transfigured -- The good and the beautiful: why the nonvirtuous person can see the beauty of a good act -- Moral beauty and affective knowledge in Aquinas -- Art, truth, and morality: aesthetic self-forgetfulness versus recognition. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Addressing contemporary interest in the relationship between metaphysics and ethics, as well as the significance of beauty for ethics, Alice Ramos presents an accessible study of the transcendentals and provides a dynamic rather than static view of truth, goodness, and beauty. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dynamic transcendentals |
| ISBN: | 0-8132-1966-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910954777103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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