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 5 - Whether man’s happiness consists in any bodily good?
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
St. Thomas frames his arguments in such a way as to apply to all bodily goods. However, he has the Objectors focus on the bodily good of health, and with good reason. Only a few people think supreme happiness lies in swiftness. Perhaps a somewhat larger number think it lies in beauty. But a great many think it lies in health.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020