QUESTION 5

OF THE ATTAINMENT OF HAPPINESS

(In Eight Articles)

We must now consider the attainment of Happiness. Under this heading

there are eight points of inquiry:

(1) Whether man can attain Happiness?

(2) Whether one man can be happier than another?

(3) Whether any man can be happy in this life?

(4) Whether Happiness once had can be lost?

(5) Whether man can attain Happiness by means of his natural powers?

(6) Whether man attains Happiness through the action of some higher

creature?

(7) Whether any actions of man are necessary in order that man may

obtain Happiness of God?

(8) Whether every man desires Happiness?

________________________

Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition · 第 46 / 746 题