Thomas Aquinas Happiness Desire Virtue

Author : Stephen Theron
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640154657
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Aquinas written by Stephen Theron and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Ethics, grade: No specific grade, Stockholm (Sankt Sigfrids Prästseminarium), course: Given as a course in ethics for seimarians, 1994, language: English, abstract: The crisis of ethics in our time calls for a synoptic view capable of kindling confident teleological motivation, in persons and societies. It is futile to search for the "clear and distinct idea" in a field of such universal importance as ethics, for which the ordinary discourse of humanity is well suited. Rather, our notions must be open, open to the analogies in things and situations, and open too to the real human situation in all its depth and breadth, such things as the desires of the human heart, the burdens of finitude, misfortune and death, the polarization of the sexes, the insights and traditions of religion, the exigences of politics, the compelling witness of the arts and of literature. The reason for this universal importance, such that a field of discourse considered especially intractable or even, recently, "queer" (J.L. Mackie), cannot be isolated as if somehow less scientific and hence inherently problematical or "emotive", was clearly stated by Aristotle when founding this science, this theoria of praxis. It is that ethics is concerned with the nature and end of man, with man, that is, in view of his characteristic action or praxis. That is to say, to take the short way for the present, it is the science of human happiness, of how to be happy. But this is the object of all human endeavour without exception. Hence, if its content be ever identified, e.g. as the vision of God, then it will follow that this content is the ultimate aim of all our civil and social arrangements, a conclusion that St. Thomas unhesitatingly draws.1 1 Summa contra gentiles III 37.

Author : Stephen Theron
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640152514
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Aquinas: Happiness, Desire, Virtue written by Stephen Theron and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Ethics, grade: No specific grade, Stockholm (Sankt Sigfrids Prästseminarium), course: Given as a course in ethics for seimarians, 1994, language: English, abstract: The crisis of ethics in our time calls for a synoptic view capable of kindling confident teleological motivation, in persons and societies. It is futile to search for the "clear and distinct idea" in a field of such universal importance as ethics, for which the ordinary discourse of humanity is well suited. Rather, our notions must be open, open to the analogies in things and situations, and open too to the real human situation in all its depth and breadth, such things as the desires of the human heart, the burdens of finitude, misfortune and death, the polarization of the sexes, the insights and traditions of religion, the exigences of politics, the compelling witness of the arts and of literature. The reason for this universal importance, such that a field of discourse considered especially intractable or even, recently, "queer" (J.L. Mackie), cannot be isolated as if somehow less scientific and hence inherently problematical or "emotive", was clearly stated by Aristotle when founding this science, this theoria of praxis. It is that ethics is concerned with the nature and end of man, with man, that is, in view of his characteristic action or praxis. That is to say, to take the short way for the present, it is the science of human happiness, of how to be happy. But this is the object of all human endeavour without exception. Hence, if its content be ever identified, e.g. as the vision of God, then it will follow that this content is the ultimate aim of all our civil and social arrangements, a conclusion that St. Thomas unhesitatingly draws.1 1 Summa contra gentiles III 37.

Author : Matt Fradd
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 164585132X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be Happy: Saint Thomas’ Secret to a Good Life written by Matt Fradd and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What brings us real and lasting happiness? Although just about every marketing firm, self-help guru, and man on the street has an answer, very few, if any, understand true happiness. It doesn’t come from power, pleasure, popularity, or possessions. So what is happiness and how do we find it? In How to Be Happy, author Matt Fradd relies on the help of St. Thomas Aquinas to show what will—and what won’t—bring us happiness in this life. By making the thought of Aquinas utterly accessible for today, How to Be Happy is an invaluable guide to a good life.

Author : Leo J. Elders
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813231981
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of St. Thomas Aquinas written by Leo J. Elders and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The far reaching changes in man's social and personal life taking place in our lifetime underline the need for a sound ethical evaluation of our rights and duties and of human behaviour both on the individual level and in the political society. On many issues judgments of value vary widely and a consultation of the thought of Thomas Aquinas on the basic questions will be helpful, the more since he is not only one of the greatest philosophers but also succeeded in integrating in his moral philosophy the wisdom of the ancients, in particular of Aristotle and the Stoa. This book presents Aquinas's thought on such central questions as man's happiness, how to determine the morality of our actions, the natural law and the main virtues, as well as on the common good, war, human labour, love and friendship. Throughout the book the intellectual character of this moral philosophy is pointed out and problems are set in a historical perspective.

Author : J. Budziszewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108804284
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purpose written by J. Budziszewski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert J. Sheehan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophy of Happiness According to St. Thomas Aquinas written by Robert J. Sheehan and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : St. Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268158029
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treatise on Happiness written by St. Thomas Aquinas and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Treatise on Happiness and the accompanying Treatise on Human Acts comprise the first twenty-one questions of I-II of the Summa Theologiae. From his careful consideration of what true happiness is, to his comprehensive discussion of how it can be attained, St. Thomas Aquinas offers a challenging and classic statement of the goals of human life, both ultimate and proximate. This translation presents in accurate, consistent, contemporary English the great Christian thinker's enduring contributions on the subject of man's happiness.

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtue written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of newly translated selections from the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Fr. Richard Regan turns to his thoughts on the moral dimensions of human action. Focusing on the first part of the second folume of the Summa Theologiae, he deals with such topics as the ultimate human goal, human acts, emotions and virtues. Regan indicates that though Aquinas approaches these topics from the perspective of human reason, it is necessary for the reader to remember that his overall viewpoint is that of a believer seeking to understand his faith. All can weigh the merits of these propositions due to their clarity of language, exposition, and structure.

Author : Nicholas Emerson Lombardo
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813217970
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Desire written by Nicholas Emerson Lombardo and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Summa theologiae, Nicholas Lombardo contributes to the recovery, reconstruction, and critique of Aquinas's account of emotion in dialogue with both the Thomist tradition and contemporary analytic philosophy

Author : Steven J. Jensen
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813221455
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living the Good Life written by Steven J. Jensen and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living the Good Life presents a brief introduction to virtue and vice, self-control and weakness, misery and happiness.