Treatise on the Last End
Thomas Aquinas, Italian dominican friar and priest and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism (1225-1274)
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Table of Contents
- About This Book
- Prologue
- Question 1. Of Man's Last End
- Article 1. Whether It Belongs To Man To Act For An End?
- Article 2. Whether It Is Proper To The Rational Nature To Act For An End
- Article 3. Whether Human Acts Are Specified By Their End?
- Article 4. Whether There Is One Last End Of Human Life
- Article 5. Whether One Man Can Have Several Last Ends
- Article 6. Whether Man Wills All, Whatsoever He Wills, For The Last End
- Article 7. Whether All Men Have The Same Last End
- Article 8. Whether Other Creatures Concur In That Last End
- Question 2. Of Those Things In Which Man's Happiness Consists
- Article 1. Whether Man's Happiness Consists In Wealth?
- Article 2. Whether Man's Happiness Consists In Honors
- Article 3. Whether Man's Happiness Consists In Fame Or Glory
- Article 4. Whether Man's Happiness Consists In Power
- Article 5. Whether Man's Happiness Consists In Any Bodily Good
- Article 6. Whether Man's Happiness Consists In Pleasure
- Article 7. Whether Some Good Of The Soul Constitutes Man's Happiness
- Article 8. Whether Any Created Good Constitutes Man's Happiness
- Question 3. What Is Happiness
- Article 1. Whether Happiness Is Something Uncreated?
- Article 2. Whether Happiness Is An Operation
- Article 3. Whether Happiness Is An Operation Of The Sensitive Part, Or Of The Intellective Part Only
- Article 4. Whether, If Happiness Is In The Intellective Part, It Is An Operation Of The Intellect Or Of The Will
- Article 5. Whether Happiness Is An Operation Of The Speculative, Or Of The Practical Intellect
- Article 6. Whether Happiness Consists In The Consideration Of Speculative Sciences
- Article 7. Whether Happiness Consists In The Knowledge Of Separate Substances, Namely, Angels
- Article 8. Whether Man's Happiness Consists In The Vision Of The Divine Essence
- Question 4. Of Those Things That Are Required For Happiness
- Article 1. Whether Delight Is Required For Happiness?
- Article 2. Whether In Happiness Vision Ranks Before Delight
- Article 3. Whether Comprehension Is Necessary For Happiness
- Article 4. Whether Rectitude Of The Will Is Necessary For Happiness
- Article 5. Whether The Body Is Necessary For Man's Happiness
- Article 6. Whether Perfection Of The Body Is Necessary For Happiness
- Article 7. Whether Any External Goods Are Necessary For Happiness
- Article 8. Whether The Fellowship Of Friends Is Necessary For Happiness
- Question 5. Of The Attainment Of Happiness
- Article 1. Whether Man Can Attain Happiness
- Article 2. Whether One Man Can Be Happier Than Another
- Article 3. Whether One Can Be Happy In This Life
- Article 4. Whether Happiness Once Had Can Be Lost
- Article 5. Whether Man Can Attain Happiness By His Natural Powers
- Article 6. Whether Man Attains Happiness Through The Action Of Some Higher Creature
- Article 7. Whether Any Good Works Are Necessary That Man May Receive Happiness From God
- Article 8. Whether Every Man Desires Happiness
