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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40570| Title: | Augustine and Aristotle in Aquinas’ doctrine of happiness |
| Authors: | Brachtendorf, Johannes |
| Keywords: | Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. Summa theologica Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 -- Influence Aristotle -- Influence Happiness Theology -- Periodicals |
| Issue Date: | 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. Faculty of Theology |
| Citation: | Brachtendorf, J. (2016). Augustine and Aristotle in Aquinas’ doctrine of happiness. Melita Theologica, 66(1), 5-21. |
| Abstract: | The ethics of St Thomas Aquinas features two main parts: his famous theory of natural law and his equally famous doctrine on human happiness. !e doctrine on happiness is paradigmatically formulated in the so-called happiness-treatise of Summa theologiae I-II q. 1-5 as well as in Aquinas’ Commentary on the Sentences; and in further detail in his Summa contra gentiles and other writings. Aquinas advocates a eudemonistic ethics and thus situates himself in the classical tradition and its Christian treatment by Augustine. In this paper, I will pursue the role Augustine plays in Aquinas’ ethics of happiness. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/40570 |
| ISSN: | 10129588 |
| Appears in Collections: | MT - Volume 66, Issue 1 - 2016 MT - Volume 66, Issue 1 - 2016 |
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