Good and Evil


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1 The general theory of good and evil.
2 The idea of the good, the notion of finality.
3 Goodness in proportion to being, the grades of perfection and the goodness of order The good, the true, and the beautiful.
4 The origin, nature, and existence of evil.
5 The goodness or perfection of God, the plenitude of the divine being.
6 God's goodness as diffusive, causing the goodness of things, God's love.
7 The divine goodness and the problem of evil.
8 The moral theory of the good, the distinction between the moral and the metaphysical good.
9 Human nature and the determination of the good for man, the real and the apparent.
10 good, particular goods and the good in general.
11 Goodness in the order of freedom and will (i) The prescriptions of duty.
12 The good will, its conditions and consequences.
13 The good and desire, goodness causing movements of desire and desire causing estimations of goodness.
14 Pleasure as the good, a good, or feeling good.
15 Right and wrong, the social incidence of the good, doing or suffering good and evil.
16 The sources of evil in human life.
17 Divisions of the human good.
18 Sensible and intelligible goods.
19 Useful and enjoyable goods, good for an end and good in itself.
20 Goods of the body and goods of the soul, the scale of values.
21 Intrinsic and external goods, intrinsic worth and extrinsic value.
22 Individual and common goods.
23 The order of human goods.
24 The supreme good or summum bonum, its existence and nature.
25 The judgment of diverse types of good, their subordination to one another.
26 The dialectic of means and ends, mere means and ultimate ends.
27 The supremacy of the individual or the common good, the relation of the good of the individual person to the good of other persons and to the good of the state.
28 Knowledge and the good.
29 Knowledge, wisdom, and virtue, the relation of being good and knowing what is good.
30 The need for experience of evil.
31 The goodness of knowledge or wisdom, the use of knowledge.
32 The possibility of moral knowledge, the subjectivity or conventionality of judgments of good and evil.


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