Chapter 6. Goodness, Oneness, and Infinity (SCG 1,37–43)
CHAPTER 6. GOODNESS, ONENESS, AND INFINITY (SCG 1,37–43)
1. See Mark 10:18, Matthew 19:17, and Luke 18:19.
2. ND, 1, 94 [28].
3. ND, 1, 152 [2].
4. ND, 1, 153 [3].
5. ND, 1, 153 [5].
6. ND, 1, 153 [6].
7. I am simplifying a bit here since Aquinas discusses participation in some detail in his writings and makes distinctions between what can be said to participate in what. For the details, see chapter 4 of John F. Wippel, The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2000).
8. ND, 1, 153 [4].
9. ND, 1, 154 [1].
10. ND, 1, 155 [5].
11. ND, 1, 155 [6].
12. I quote from Saint Augustine, The Trinity, translated by Edmund Hill (New York: New York City Press, 1991).
13. ND, 1, 158 [1].
14. Some of the arguments are complicated and therefore hard to summarize. You should, therefore, check my summaries against the text of Aquinas so as to see whether or not I have caught the essentials of his arguments in SCG 1,42. I hope that I have.
15. ND, 1, 158 [2].
16. ND, 1, 158 [3].
17. ND, 1, 158 [4].
18. ND, 1, 159 [5].
19. ND, 1, 159 [6].
20. ND, 1, 159–160 [7].
21. ND, 1, 160 [8].
22. ND, 1, 160–161 [9].
23. ND, 1, 162 [12].
24. ND, 1, 162 [12].
25. ND, 1, 162 [13].
26. ND, 1, 163 [16].
27. ND, 1, 163 [17].
28. ND, 1, 163 [18].
29. ND, 1, 163 [19].
30. ND, 1, 164 [20].
31. ND, 1, 166 [3].
32. ND, 1, 166 [5 and 6].
33. See ND, 1, 164 [22].
34. ND, 1, 166 [3].
35. P. T. Geach, “Good and Evil,” Analysis 17 (December 1956): 33.
36. Nicomachean Ethics 1,1,1094a3.
37. For a book-length discussion of Aquinas on God being good and evil being real, see my Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).