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- The communication that establishes friendship between humankind and God is God’s sharing with us his very happiness (ST II-II q. 23, a. 1). God’s happiness consists in the friendship among the persons of the Trinity. For God to be happy is for God to be God, and for Aquinas this means being a Trinity of friendship.
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I answer that, A certain participation of Happiness can be had in this life: but perfect and true Happiness cannot be had in this life. This may be seen from a twofold consideration. First, from the general notion of happiness.
Jan 28, 2021 · Aquinas‘s commentary spends half its time on hope as a passion, before addressing it as a theological virtue. As an emotion, hope is a response to a sensible good. But unlike simple desire (the flagship passion of the concupiscible appetite), hope is specified by stretching toward a future good that is “arduous and difficult”—but not ...
Aug 19, 2014 · St. Thomas Aquinas held that happiness is one of the foundational characteristics of the mind’s assent to God, and in this light theology is a discipline in which we seek not only to understand...
Aug 9, 2013 · The communication that establishes friendship between humankind and God is God’s sharing with us his very happiness (ST II-II q. 23, a. 1). God’s happiness consists in the friendship among the persons of the Trinity. For God to be happy is for God to be God, and for Aquinas this means being a Trinity of friendship.
- The Doctrine of Double Happiness
- Happiness as Knowledge of God
- Further Readings
- Bibliography
Already in his Summa Contra Gentiles, Aquinas had taken a position similar to St. Augustine’s, that perfect happiness is not possible in this lifetime. Aquinas takes seriously St. Paul’s assurance in 1 Corinthians 13:12 that “for now we see as through a glass darkly, but then we see face to face.” This world is too plagued with unsatisfied desires ...
Thomas Aquinas is uncompromising in his view that our true happiness can only be found in knowledge of God. No other worldly good or pleasure can truly provide us with the ultimate good we seek. As he argues in the Summa Theologica: This passage illustrates well St. Aquinas’ unique blend of rigorous logical reasoning with his use of Scripture which...
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1. See also Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Aquinas 2. Influential Christian scholar John Locke & The Pursuit of Happiness
Aquinas, Thomas; Mary T. Clark (2000). An Aquinas Reader: Selections from the Writings of Thomas Aquinas. Fordham University Press. Aquinas, Thomas (2002). Aquinas’s Shorter Summa. Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press. Davies, Brian (2004). Aquinas: An Introduction. Continuum International Publishing Group. McMahon, Darrin (2006). A History of Ha...
Summa Theologica — Saint Thomas Aquinas. Objection 1: It would seem that eternal happiness is not the proper object of hope. For a man does not hope for that which surpasses every movement of the soul, since hope itself is a movement of the soul.
But when hope is voided in the blessed, whereby they hoped for their own happiness, they hope for the happiness of others indeed, yet not by the virtue of hope, but rather by the love of charity. Even so, he that has Divine charity, by that same charity loves his neighbor, without having the virtue of charity, but by some other love.
