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
Question 4, Article 7 - Whether any external goods are necessary for happiness?
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
It might seem to follow as a matter of course that if the body is required for supreme happiness, then so are the external goods the body needs. However, several other things complicate the question. We must distinguish between the essence of happiness and the means to it; between what is needed and what is fitting; between complete and incomplete happiness; and between the conditions of our bodies in the next life and in this one.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020