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May 5, 2022Liked by Applied Virtue

Thank you for the helpful response. I realized after posting this that St. Thomas refers to res as a transcendental in his disputed questions on truth.

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Re James Nights: Because goodness, truth, and beauty are convertible with being, it is helpful to consider how they differ in thought. Truth is being as apprehended by the intellect. Goodness is being as desirable to the will. Beauty is being considered according to its proportion and causing delight or appreciation of the proportion. The transcendentals of beauty, truth, and goodness are are being as they relate to the human faculties which apprehend them.

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This essay is very good and helpful. However, it does not seem to me that either "thing" is a transcendental. For to be a thing is to be a "this" or a "that" which is to belong to a genus. However the transcendentals do not belong to a genus. It is for this reason that they are transcendentals.

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Very good essay - I would say that Goodness and Beauty are also kinds of Truth's that reveal themselves when encountered. They are beyond reason and in many ways even explanation

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