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
- Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- Question 5, Article 1 Whether man can attain happiness?
- Question 5, Article 2 Whether one man can be happier than another?
- Question 5, Article 3 Whether one can be happy in this life?
- Question 5, Article 4 Whether happiness once had can be lost?
- Question 5, Article 5 Whether man can attain happiness by his natural powers?
- Question 5, Article 6 Whether man attains happiness through the action of some higher creature?
- Question 5, Article 7 Whether any good works are necessary that man may receive happiness from God?
- Question 5, Article 8 Whether every man desires happiness?
- Afterword So What Is Our Ultimate Purpose? What Is Happiness?
- Index
Question 5, Article 6 - Whether man attains happiness through the action of some higher creature?
from Question 5 - How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
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
- Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 5 How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained
- Question 5, Article 1 Whether man can attain happiness?
- Question 5, Article 2 Whether one man can be happier than another?
- Question 5, Article 3 Whether one can be happy in this life?
- Question 5, Article 4 Whether happiness once had can be lost?
- Question 5, Article 5 Whether man can attain happiness by his natural powers?
- Question 5, Article 6 Whether man attains happiness through the action of some higher creature?
- Question 5, Article 7 Whether any good works are necessary that man may receive happiness from God?
- Question 5, Article 8 Whether every man desires happiness?
- Afterword So What Is Our Ultimate Purpose? What Is Happiness?
- Index
Summary
In the previous Article, St. Thomas showed that no human being can achieve supreme happiness by his own natural powers. However, during the course of the argument he maintained that man can achieve supreme happiness by the power of God. Someone might ask: Is God our only resort? Even if our own powers do not suffice, can we attain supreme happiness by any power superior to ours, but short of His? In particular, might we have assistance from the noncorporeal intellectual creatures that the tradition has called angels?
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