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 7 - Whether some good of the soul constitutes man’s happiness?
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 actual enjoyment of external and of bodily goods takes place in the soul. However, there are also goods intrinsic to the soul, such as virtue. Could supreme happiness or beatitude lie in one of those?
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020