The Positivity of the Real in the Cardonian Concept of the Good

Abstract

This article aims to show the reasons why we can affirm that reality is something positive, although it may be crisscrossed by limitation and the drama of evil. The philosopher we refer to here is the Catalan Carlos Cardona, whose writings address the concept of the ontological good. This study analyzes above all the most meaningful elements of the concept of the ontological good without attempting to exhaust the question in all its richness; the consideration of being as a good insofar as it is an act that perfects a subject; the origin of goodness created in the divine Goodness and the importance of the metaphysical difference between the Good by essence and the good by means of participation... In conclusion, it briefly presents the honest, useful, and pleasurable good as an essential way to learn to love.