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 8 - Whether any created good 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
Up to this point in Question 2, we have been considering not only particular goods, such as wealth, honors, glory, power, and pleasure, but also entire categories of goods, such as external goods, goods of the body, and goods of the soul. Since these exhaust all possible created human goods, it would seem that no other candidates for happiness are left. Even though we have not considered each separate human good that is conceivable – for example, we have not considered friendship, beauty, meaningful work, knowledge of the created universe, or the overcoming of challenges – it seems that every human good we might propose falls into one of the three categories.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020