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    Goodness has to do with being undivided from a final cause. — Carmelics
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    Supports→The concept of goodness is the concept of being that is undivided from a final cause.

    Goodness has to do with being undivided from a final cause.

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    A final cause would represent a perfection the First Being aims toward...80%The notion of being that is undivided is a purely negative notion.79%A final cause concerns goals or ends, especially those brought to fulf...77%If the First Being aimed at a final cause through its activities, it w...75%

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    Philip adopts the second notion of convertibility. The various transcendentals do not differ in reality, only in concept. The concept of being is fundamental in that the concepts of the other transcendentals presuppose it. However, the concepts of all of the other transcendentals add a certain basic notion to the notion of being in order to differentiate them from being (see Aertsen 2012, MacDonald 1992). This basic notion is the notion of being that is undivided. Because this is a purely negati

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