Truth, beauty and goodness

[Theticoboy]

Does anyone have any suggestions on books, articles (or CDs, DVDs etc) for “truth, beauty and goodness” as attributes of God and as 3 things all people live for, three transcendent ideas that we never tire of as human beings? Thanks in advance for your help.

By the way, this is my first post!

 

[tonyrey]

You are very welcome!

You need to give some information about your experience in philosophy. Otherwise it is difficult to know what to suggest. If you ask some questions here it would be better than being thrown in at the deep end!

 

[whitecrayon]

this thread topic interests me a lot; however, i know very little about truth, beauty and goodness in any religious or philosophical sense that i can express intellectually here.

i may be able to help theticoboy and any other readers of this thread a little bit, though, by recommending that you guys surf the world wide web for university philosophy departments websites and then looking for professors or courses which might be able to lead you to some good books on the subjects. look for philosophy courses named “aesthetics” primarily, and also look for courses and professors in “ethics”. also, there is some big academic word for what one would call “the philosophy of truth”, but i cannot remember the word right now.

you can email professors who list their fields of expertise as related to truth, beauty and goodness for help finding good books on these things, and, if you get lucky, you can find syllabi online for certain courses, such as those mentioned above, which list in the required reading titles of possibly good related books.

whitecrayon

 

[fons_vitae]

Have you read any Plato? He won’t talk about aspects of the Christian God, but he’s certainly one of the leading philosophers of truth, beauty, and goodness as things that humans live for.

 

[Theticoboy]

Thank you very much. I do not have a philosophy background so some of these suggestions will at least get me in going in some direction!