Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose
Cambridge University Press
Edition: New, 1/27/2022
EAN 9781108745406, ISBN10: 1108745407
Paperback, 706 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 4.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
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.
I. Man's Ultimate Purpose (Question 1)
II. Happiness Itself
A. Where Does Complete Happiness Lie? Failed Candidates (Question 2)
B. What Then Is Complete Happiness in Itself, and In What Does It Really Lie? (Question 3)
C. Its Attainment
1. What Complete Happiness Requires (Question 4)
2. How Complete Happiness Is Finally Attained (Question 5).