Book contents
- Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Happinessand Ultimate Purpose
- Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Analytical Table of Contents
- Ante Studium (Before Study)
- Epigraph
- Commentator’s Introduction
- General Prologue of St. Thomas Aquinas to the Treatiseon Happiness and Ultimate Purpose
- Question 1 Man’s Ultimate Purpose
- Question 2 Where Does Complete Happiness Lie? Failed Candidates
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 2 Where Does Complete Happiness Lie? Failed Candidates
- Question 2, article 1 Whether man’s happiness consists in wealth?
- Question 2, article 2 Whether man’s happiness consists in honors?
- Question 2, article 3 Whether man’s happiness consists in fame or glory?
- Question 2, article 4 Whether man’s happiness consists in power?
- Question 2, article 5 Whether man’s happiness consists in any bodily good?
- Question 2, Article 6 Whether man’s happiness consists in pleasure?
- Question 2, Article 7 Whether some good of the soul constitutes man’s happiness?
- Question 2, Article 8 Whether any created good constitutes man’s happiness?
- Question 3 What Then Is Complete Happiness In Itself, And In What Does It Really Lie?
- Question 4 What Complete Happiness Requires
- Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- Afterword So What Is Our Ultimate Purpose? What Is Happiness?
- Index
Question 2, article 4 - Whether man’s happiness consists in power?
from Question 2 - Where Does Complete Happiness Lie? Failed Candidates
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2020
- Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Happinessand Ultimate Purpose
- Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Analytical Table of Contents
- Ante Studium (Before Study)
- Epigraph
- Commentator’s Introduction
- General Prologue of St. Thomas Aquinas to the Treatiseon Happiness and Ultimate Purpose
- Question 1 Man’s Ultimate Purpose
- Question 2 Where Does Complete Happiness Lie? Failed Candidates
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 2 Where Does Complete Happiness Lie? Failed Candidates
- Question 2, article 1 Whether man’s happiness consists in wealth?
- Question 2, article 2 Whether man’s happiness consists in honors?
- Question 2, article 3 Whether man’s happiness consists in fame or glory?
- Question 2, article 4 Whether man’s happiness consists in power?
- Question 2, article 5 Whether man’s happiness consists in any bodily good?
- Question 2, Article 6 Whether man’s happiness consists in pleasure?
- Question 2, Article 7 Whether some good of the soul constitutes man’s happiness?
- Question 2, Article 8 Whether any created good constitutes man’s happiness?
- Question 3 What Then Is Complete Happiness In Itself, And In What Does It Really Lie?
- Question 4 What Complete Happiness Requires
- Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- Afterword So What Is Our Ultimate Purpose? What Is Happiness?
- Index
Summary
The term translated as “power,” potestate, can refer to all sorts of powers. However, the kind of power discussed in the present Article is not the power to build a house, to prove a theorem, to be aroused to anger, or to write a book, but the power to rule or direct others. Curiously, although people in our society readily admit to the desire to be “administrators,” join “management,” learn “leadership,” or enter “public service,” they rarely admit to a desire to rule or attain power.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020