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Transcendentals

In philosophy, the transcendentals (Latin: transcendentalia, from transcendere "to exceed") are the ultimate "properties of being" that exist beyond the material world, nowadays commonly considered to be truth, unity (oneness), beauty, and goodness.[citation needed] Formulation of transcendentals as a set arose from medieval scholasticism, namely…

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related to Bibliography · 40
Transcendentals → Aertsen, Being, Bibliothèque, Borders, Brill, Bruno Pinchard, Case, Champion, Chancellor, Doyle, Fine, Francisco Suárez, From Philip, Graziella Federici Vescovini, Histoire, Jan, John, Knowing, Late Scholastic Theory, Le
related to Beauty, Goodness and Truth · 28
Transcendentals → Alexandria, Aristotle, Augustine, Beauty, Being, CE, Christian Neoplatonists, Ethics, God, Good, Goodness, In, In Plato's, Intellect, Knowing, Light, Lilla, Love, Metaphysics, One
related to External links · 14
Transcendentals → Aertsen, An Annotated Bibliography, Edward, Goris, History, In Zalta, ISSN, Jan, Jan Aertsen, Medieval Theories, OCLC, Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia, Wouter
related to history · 8
Transcendentals → Aristotle, Aristotle's, Form, Good, One, Parmenides, Plato, Socrates

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