Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose
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Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose

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eBook - PDF

Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose

About this book

This monumental, line-by-line commentary makes Thomas Aquinas's classic Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose accessible to all readers. Budziszewski illuminates arguments that even specialists find challenging: What is happiness? Is it something that we have, feel, or do? Does it lie in such things as wealth, power, fame, having friends, or knowing God? Can it actually be attained? This book's luminous prose makes Aquinas's treatise transparent, bringing to light profound underlying issues concerning knowledge, meaning, human psychology, and even the nature of reality.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Analytical Table of Contents
  7. Anti Studium
  8. Epigraph
  9. Commentator’s Introduction
  10. General Prologue of St. Thomas Aquinas to the Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose
  11. Man’s Ultimate Purpose (Question 1)
  12. Where Does Complete Happiness Lie? Failed Candidates (Question 2)
  13. What Then is Complete Happiness in Itself,and in What does it Really Lie? (Question 3)
  14. What Complete Happiness Requires (Question 4)
  15. How Complete Happiness is Finally Attained (Question 5)
  16. Afterword: So What Is Our Ultimate Purpose? What Is Happiness?
  17. Index