Summa Theologica Ia IIae, q. 2 a. 1-8

St. Thomas Aquinas
The Summa Theologica
Of Those Things In Which Man's Happiness Consists (Eight Articles)


We have now to consider happiness: and (1) in what it consists; (2) what it is; (3) how we can obtain it.


Concerning the first there are eight points of inquiry:

(1) Whether happiness consists in wealth?

(2) Whether in honor?

(3) Whether in fame or glory?

(4) Whether in power?

(5) Whether in any good of the body?

(6) Whether in pleasure?

(7) Whether in any good of the soul?

(8) Whether in any created good?