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
- Question 3 What Then Is Complete Happiness In Itself, And In What Does It Really Lie?
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 3 What Then Is Complete Happiness in Itself, and in What Does It Really Lie?
- Question 3, Article 1 Whether happiness is something uncreated?
- Question 3, Article 2 Whether happiness is an operation?
- Question 3, Article 3 Whether happiness is an operation of the sensitive part, or of the intellective part only?
- Question 3, Article 4 Whether, if happiness is in the intellective part, it is an operation of the intellect or of the will?
- Question 3, Article 5 Whether happiness is an operation of the speculative, or of the practical intellect
- Question 3, Article 6 Whether happiness consists in the consideration of speculative sciences?
- Question 3, Article 7 Whether happiness consists in the knowledge of separate substances, namely, angels?
- Question 3, Article 8 Whether man’s happiness consists in the vision of the divine essence?
- 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 3, Article 5 - Whether happiness is an operation of the speculative, or of the practical intellect
from Question 3 - What Then Is Complete Happiness In Itself, And In What Does It Really Lie?
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
- Question 3 What Then Is Complete Happiness In Itself, And In What Does It Really Lie?
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 3 What Then Is Complete Happiness in Itself, and in What Does It Really Lie?
- Question 3, Article 1 Whether happiness is something uncreated?
- Question 3, Article 2 Whether happiness is an operation?
- Question 3, Article 3 Whether happiness is an operation of the sensitive part, or of the intellective part only?
- Question 3, Article 4 Whether, if happiness is in the intellective part, it is an operation of the intellect or of the will?
- Question 3, Article 5 Whether happiness is an operation of the speculative, or of the practical intellect
- Question 3, Article 6 Whether happiness consists in the consideration of speculative sciences?
- Question 3, Article 7 Whether happiness consists in the knowledge of separate substances, namely, angels?
- Question 3, Article 8 Whether man’s happiness consists in the vision of the divine essence?
- 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
As remarked before, the expression “speculative intellect” is grossly misleading in English, and the expression “theoretical intellect” is not much better; this intellectual power has nothing to do with guessing or even with concocting theories. The reason the expressions came into use is that their respective Latin and Greek roots refer to having a view of things. So we might say that as the practical intellect is the guiding or doing mind, the speculative intellect is the seeing or knowing mind.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020