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
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 4 What Complete Happiness Requires
- Question 4, Article 1 Whether pleasure, or delight, is required for happiness?
- Question 4, Article 2 Whether in happiness vision ranks before delight?
- Question 4, Article 3 Whether comprehension is necessary for happiness?
- Question 4, Article 4 Whether rectitude of the will is necessary for happiness?
- Question 4, Article 5 Whether the body is necessary for man’s happiness?
- Question 4, Article 6 Whether perfection of the body is necessary for happiness?
- Question 4, Article 7 Whether any external goods are necessary for happiness?
- Question 4, Article 8 Whether the fellowship of friends is necessary for happiness?
- Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- Afterword So What Is Our Ultimate Purpose? What Is Happiness?
- Index
St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 4 - What Complete Happiness Requires
from Question 4 - What Complete Happiness Requires
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2020
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
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 4 What Complete Happiness Requires
- Question 4, Article 1 Whether pleasure, or delight, is required for happiness?
- Question 4, Article 2 Whether in happiness vision ranks before delight?
- Question 4, Article 3 Whether comprehension is necessary for happiness?
- Question 4, Article 4 Whether rectitude of the will is necessary for happiness?
- Question 4, Article 5 Whether the body is necessary for man’s happiness?
- Question 4, Article 6 Whether perfection of the body is necessary for happiness?
- Question 4, Article 7 Whether any external goods are necessary for happiness?
- Question 4, Article 8 Whether the fellowship of friends is necessary for happiness?
- Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- Afterword So What Is Our Ultimate Purpose? What Is Happiness?
- Index
Summary
In Question 1, we established that man does have an ultimate purpose, and this is happiness. In Question 2, we found that it does not lie in any created thing, and in Question 3, we found that it lies in union with the Creator. Both Question 4 and Question 5 pursue what this union involves, but they pursue it in different senses. Here, in Question 4, we are looking into the conditions it requires – “If you do not have Q, you cannot possess that union with Him.” Later, in Question 5, we will look into other matters connected with its attainment.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020