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Aquinas Outline - Term Papers

Aquinas Outline

I. Happiness is the ultimate end, or goal, of human existence.

A. Happiness cannot be based on the accumulation of material goods, even those that support human life such as food, shelter, and clothing.
B. Happiness does not depend on honor, fame, or glory, although these things can arise directly from happiness.
C. Power cannot create happiness because power can imply good or evil, whereas as man's end, happiness is supremely good.
D. Happiness does not depend on the condition of one's body, because the body is mortal; happiness belongs to the soul.
E. Pure pleasure or delight does not create happiness; rather, they arise incidentally and accidentally from the state of ...

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an immutable, fundamental, ultimate desire and therefore must be fulfilled in order for any person to achieve happiness or beatitude.
C. God is the essence of perfection; the only way to achieve perfect happiness is to obtain union with that perfection.

III. Whoever is capable of Perfect Good can achieve the ultimate end: happiness.

A. Human beings are capable of attaining beatitude, the Perfect Good, because the human intellect can comprehend and desire Perfect Good.
B. Human beings can obtain beatitude because human beings are capable of communing with ...

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Added: 6/20/2016 04:53:39 AM
Category: Philosophy
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 290
Pages: 2

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