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Often appears with: wealth · the passions and the emotions · reason and the intellect · question structure · prayer directed to a superior · prayer as an act of reason · prayer and worship · pleasure, pain, and the good life · honor · happiness acquisition · happiness · god as last end
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The text announces Question 2’s eight inquiries about happiness, asking whether it consists in wealth, honor, fame, power, bodily goods, pleasure, goods of the soul, or any created good.
is not possible to other creatures, which acquire their last end, in so far as they share in the Divine likeness, inasmuch as they are, or live, or even know. Hence it is evident how the objections are solved: since happiness means the acquisition of the last end. ________________________ QUESTION 2 OF THOSE THINGS IN WHICH MAN'S HAPPINESS CONSISTS (In Eight Articles) We have now to consider happiness: and (1) in…
In answering whether prayer is proper to rational creatures, Aquinas argues that prayer is an act of reason directed to a superior, and thus belongs to rational humans, not to divine persons as such or dumb animals.
intellectual creatures which are the angels are distinct from rational creatures, and sometimes are included under them. In this sense prayer is said to be proper to the rational creature. Reply Obj. 3: The young ravens are said to call upon God, on account of the natural desire whereby all things, each in its own way, desire to attain the Divine goodness. Thus too dumb animals are said to obey God, on account of th…