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 1 - Whether man’s happiness consists in wealth?
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
Wealth is the first candidate for happiness to be considered, probably because so many nominate it. It is easy to see why people would fix their hopes on material possessions, for the desire for riches is allied with other strong motives. One is fear, the anxiety that I will not have enough. Another is status, because although the rich are resented and envied, they are also admired. Still another is the love of power, which we consider later. And then there is sheer sensuality: It is not for nothing that the Latin term luxuria can refer not only to luxury in the English sense, but also to self-indulgence or lust. I imagine that I will be happy if only I get what I want – everything I want.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020