Treatise on the Last End

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)


This ebook presents «Treatise on the Last End», from Thomas Aquinas. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


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