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?
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 3 What Then Is Complete Happiness in Itself, and in What Does It Really Lie?
- Question 3, Article 1 Whether happiness is something uncreated?
- Question 3, Article 2 Whether happiness is an operation?
- Question 3, Article 3 Whether happiness is an operation of the sensitive part, or of the intellective part only?
- Question 3, Article 4 Whether, if happiness is in the intellective part, it is an operation of the intellect or of the will?
- Question 3, Article 5 Whether happiness is an operation of the speculative, or of the practical intellect
- Question 3, Article 6 Whether happiness consists in the consideration of speculative sciences?
- Question 3, Article 7 Whether happiness consists in the knowledge of separate substances, namely, angels?
- Question 3, Article 8 Whether man’s happiness consists in the vision of the divine essence?
- 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 3, Article 8 - Whether man’s happiness consists in the vision of the divine essence?
from Question 3 - What Then Is Complete Happiness In Itself, And In What Does It Really Lie?
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?
- St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 3 What Then Is Complete Happiness in Itself, and in What Does It Really Lie?
- Question 3, Article 1 Whether happiness is something uncreated?
- Question 3, Article 2 Whether happiness is an operation?
- Question 3, Article 3 Whether happiness is an operation of the sensitive part, or of the intellective part only?
- Question 3, Article 4 Whether, if happiness is in the intellective part, it is an operation of the intellect or of the will?
- Question 3, Article 5 Whether happiness is an operation of the speculative, or of the practical intellect
- Question 3, Article 6 Whether happiness consists in the consideration of speculative sciences?
- Question 3, Article 7 Whether happiness consists in the knowledge of separate substances, namely, angels?
- Question 3, Article 8 Whether man’s happiness consists in the vision of the divine essence?
- 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
As I explained in the Introduction, the Angelic Doctor does not write like the author of a mystery story. He has been providing what mystery fans call “spoilers” for quite a while. Finally we reach the pivotal question, the one to which the spoilers have been pointing: Are we really united with God by knowing Him, and is this really our happiness?
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