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?
- Question 4 What Complete Happiness Requires
- Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- Question 5, Article 1 Whether man can attain happiness?
- Question 5, Article 2 Whether one man can be happier than another?
- Question 5, Article 3 Whether one can be happy in this life?
- Question 5, Article 4 Whether happiness once had can be lost?
- Question 5, Article 5 Whether man can attain happiness by his natural powers?
- Question 5, Article 6 Whether man attains happiness through the action of some higher creature?
- Question 5, Article 7 Whether any good works are necessary that man may receive happiness from God?
- Question 5, Article 8 Whether every man desires happiness?
- Afterword So What Is Our Ultimate Purpose? What Is Happiness?
- Index
Question 5, Article 4 - Whether happiness once had can be lost?
from Question 5 - How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
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?
- Question 4 What Complete Happiness Requires
- Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- Question 5, Article 1 Whether man can attain happiness?
- Question 5, Article 2 Whether one man can be happier than another?
- Question 5, Article 3 Whether one can be happy in this life?
- Question 5, Article 4 Whether happiness once had can be lost?
- Question 5, Article 5 Whether man can attain happiness by his natural powers?
- Question 5, Article 6 Whether man attains happiness through the action of some higher creature?
- Question 5, Article 7 Whether any good works are necessary that man may receive happiness from God?
- Question 5, Article 8 Whether every man desires happiness?
- Afterword So What Is Our Ultimate Purpose? What Is Happiness?
- Index
Summary
The respondeo or “I answer that” in this Article is the longest in the Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose. No doubt this is mostly because the problem itself is complex, but perhaps St. Thomas also wants to make sure that we get the point. If we could reach our final destination, but not stay there, what hope would there be in human life?
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020