caa a22 4500 469039523 CHVBK 20180323132807.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00774422 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00774422 MacDonald Scott University of Iowa, USA aut Goodness as transcendental: The early thirteenth-century recovery of an Aristotelian idea [Elektronische Daten] [Scott MacDonald] In this paper I investigate the philosophical developments at the heart of what appears to be the earliest systematic formulation of the doctrine of the transcendentals by comparing the first questions of Philip the Chancellor'sSumma de bono (the so-called first treatise on the transcendentals — ca. 1230) with its immediate ancestor, a small group of questions from William of Auxerre'sSumma aurea (ca. 1220). I argue that Philip's innovative position on the relation between being and goodness, the centerpiece of his doctrine of the transcendentals, is motivated by an Aristotelian conception of theoretical knowledge that grounds inquiry in metaphysical classification and definition understood in terms of Aristotle's doctrine of the categories. The concerns about taxonomy and definition that Philip introduces into the early thirteenth-century discussion of the metaphysics of goodness lead him to the theses that are the foundations of the medieval doctrine of the transcendentals, among them that being and goodness are conceptually distinct but the same in reality. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Topoi Springer Netherlands 11/2(1992-09-01), 173-186 0167-7411 11:2<173 1992 11 11245 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00774422 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00774422 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- MacDonald Scott University of Iowa, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Topoi Springer Netherlands 11/2(1992-09-01), 173-186 0167-7411 11:2<173 1992 11 11245 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer