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 7 - Whether happiness consists in the knowledge of separate substances, namely, angels?
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
If few universities today have departments of angelology, the reason is that few scholars today believe in immaterial, personal substantial beings distinct from God. Even many who do believe in God consider angels a sort of fairy tale. It is curious that persons who believe in God and believe in man would consider it impossible that God would create any rational beings higher than we are. Yet this is the prejudice.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020