Transcendentals Essay

what is meant by transcendentals? Is there such a things as the transcendentals. Indeed, there is such a thing as the transcendentals. The transcendentals are terms that express being in a way which being does not. We can also say that the transcendentals, are property of being, The property is not part of the being, instead, it is a quality of being. How many are the transcendentals? According to St. Thomas there are six transcendentals. The first transcendental is being. For all that exist is being, being is everything. As I stated before, every being can be consider in itself and in relation to other beings. So, every being considered in itself can be positive or negative. when being is considered absolutely in itself and positively, it

The term truth can be defined in three ways. The first way is that by which precedes from the ratio of truth and on which the truth is founded1. This is the transcendental truth for it is that which exist. The truth can also be defined as the conformity of the things to the intellect2. For example, when I hear my mum speaking outside, I believe that she is my mum, for my intellect have the idea of my mum voice. But when I see my mum speaking to me face to face, I truly know that she is my mum. The third way of defining truth is according to the effect following upon it3. When the idea of my mum matches with her, as she is. I say she is truly my mum, this is the judgment of

But as St. Thomas said some predicates may be said to add to being inasmuch as they express a mode of being not expressed by the term being4. Thus, there are three ways of addition. The first way of addition is when some reality outside the essence are added to a thing. For example, If Médard was not black, he would still be a man, for blackness is outside the essence of Médard. The second way of adding to being by adding something to another as limiting or determining it. For example kiwi adds something to the genus of fruits not because in the essence of a kiwi there is something outside the essence of fruit, but What is implicitly contained in plant is determinately and actually contained in the notion of a kiwi, but not completely outside the essence of fruit. The third way of adding, is when we add something to being conceptually and not in reality. For example, muteness, blindness, deafness; are this are not in reality, they are privations, for man sees, speaks, hears by nature. Thus muteness, blindness, deafness etc.. are beings of reason, the only exist in the