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Treatise on Happiness (ND Series in Great Books)
St. Thomas Aquinas
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Description for Treatise on Happiness (ND Series in Great Books)
Paperback. Translator(s): Oesterle, J.A. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268018498
SKU
V9780268018498
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About St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was a Doctor of the church. He was an Italian Dominican friar and Roman Catholic priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism. Canonized in 1323 by Pope John XXII, Aquinas was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology and the father of Thomism. The late John A. ... Read more
Reviews for Treatise on Happiness (ND Series in Great Books)
“[This] text . . . performs an extremely useful task. It makes an important part of Thomas’s moral thought readily available to those with little or no knowledge of Latin, and without the wherewithal to approach the large and costly English editions. It is a step in the right direction, not of returning to some Catholic version of fundamentalist bibliolatry, ... Read more