Aquinas on Happiness as an Antidote to Modern Life

Aquinas on Happiness as an Antidote to Modern Life

CHRISTOPHER J. THOMPSON

In a small section of his famous work, the Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas Aquinas provides us with a basic tutorial on human flourishing. This well-known “treatise on human happiness” forms the skeletal outlines of the dominant desire at the core of every human heart: the inescapable need for happiness, fulfillment, bliss.

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St Thomas Aquinas as a Model of Happiness

St Thomas Aquinas as a Model of Happiness

EDMUND WALDSTEIN, O.Cist.

The Greek historian Herodotus recounts that Solon, the lawgiver of Athens, travelled through the world and saw many things. On travelling through Asia Minor, he visited the fabulously wealthy king Croesus of Lydia. Croesus had his servants show off his many treasures to Solon. Then Croesus asked Solon who the happiest man…

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