PART IA Theory of Good as Fulfilment1  The Basic Theory: Appetites and Fulfilment1.1  Actuality and potentiality1.2  Appetite as potentiality: the tendencies ofthings1.3  Seven objections to goodness as fulfilment1.4  Fulfilment as non-arbitrariness: the principleof finality2  Developing the Scholastic Conception ofGoodness2.1  Goodness as neither essentially moral noressentially organic2.2  The attributive/predicative debate 2.3  Final and contributory goodness2.4  Goodness ‘in a way’3  A Case for Inorganic Goodness3.1  Instantiation and approximation3.2  Continuation in existence as a tendency3.3  The objection from radioactivity3.4  False analogies: inertia and conservation3.5  Is existence itself good?4  The Good in the Living4.1  From inorganic to organic goodness4.2  The good in the vegetative appetites4.3  The good in the sensitive appetites4.4  Sexual cannibalism and related objections4.5  The good in the rational appetitePART IIA Theory of Evil as Privation5  In Defence of the Privation Theory5.1  Privation and need5.2  Privation and evil5.3  Some painful objections5.4  Objections from morality: malice and punishment6  Evil and Truthmaking6.1  Truthmaker theory and negative truths6.2  Absences6.3  The totality theory6.4  The exclusion theory6.5  Truthmakers for privative truths7  Evil as Cause and Effect7.1  The fundamental problem7.2  Absence causation7.3  Privative causal truths7.4  Armstrong's analysis: the contrast8  The Reality of Evil8.1  Non-negotiable truths about evil8.2  Why it matters that evil is conceptual being8.3  The reality of evil in the good8.4  The mystery of evil