Ramos, Alice

Dynamic transcendentals truth, goodness, and beauty from a Thomistic perspective Alice M. Ramos. - Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America Press c2012. - ix, 259 p. 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

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.

9780813219653 (cloth : alk. paper)

2011040543


Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274


Transcendentals.

B765.T54 / R24 2012

111.8 / R1753d