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
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 1 Man’s Ultimate Purpose
- Question 1, Article 1 Whether it belongs to man to act for an end?
- Question 1, Article 2 Whether it is proper to the rational nature to act for an end?
- Question 1, Article 3 Whether human acts are specified by their end?
- Question 1, Article 4 Whether there is one last end of human life?
- Question 1, Article 5 Whether one man can have several last ends?
- Question 1, article 6 Whether man will all, whatsoever he wills, for the last end?
- Question 1, article 7 Whether all men have the same last end?
- Question 1, article 8 Whether other creatures concur in that last end?
- 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
- Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- Afterword So What Is Our Ultimate Purpose? What Is Happiness?
- Index
Question 1, article 7 - Whether all men have the same last end?
from Question 1 - Man’s Ultimate Purpose
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
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 1 Man’s Ultimate Purpose
- Question 1, Article 1 Whether it belongs to man to act for an end?
- Question 1, Article 2 Whether it is proper to the rational nature to act for an end?
- Question 1, Article 3 Whether human acts are specified by their end?
- Question 1, Article 4 Whether there is one last end of human life?
- Question 1, Article 5 Whether one man can have several last ends?
- Question 1, article 6 Whether man will all, whatsoever he wills, for the last end?
- Question 1, article 7 Whether all men have the same last end?
- Question 1, article 8 Whether other creatures concur in that last end?
- 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
- Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- Afterword So What Is Our Ultimate Purpose? What Is Happiness?
- Index
Summary
In the previous Article, St. Thomas made it clear that different men might pursue different ends as though they were ultimate. Now he considers whether such differences arise from a mistake: Whether, despite disagreements about what the ultimate purpose is, in some sense all people are aimed at the same one – even if they err about what it is.
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