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Summa Theologica - 06 Pars Prima Secundae, On the Last End, On Human Acts

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Summa Theologica - 06 Pars Prima Secundae, On the Last End, On Human Acts

by Saint Thomas Aquinas

English· 12:20:15· 26 chapters
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written between 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas, even though it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the Protestant Reformation, subsisted solely in the Roman Catholic Church. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God, God's creation, Man, Man's purpose, Christ, the Sacraments, and back to God. (Summary by Leni)

This is part seven, the first part of the Pars Prima Secundae, consisting of the Treatises on the Last End and on Human Acts.

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Preface and Question 1 - OF MAN'S LAST END (In Eight Articles)

    40:54
  2. Chapter 2

    Question 2 - OF THOSE THINGS IN WHICH MAN'S HAPPINESS CONSISTS (In Eight Articles)

    31:17
  3. Chapter 3

    Question 3 - WHAT IS HAPPINESS (In Eight Articles), part 1

    29:04
  4. Chapter 4

    Question 3 - WHAT IS HAPPINESS (In Eight Articles), part 2

    17:30
  5. Chapter 5

    Question 4 - OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR HAPPINESS (In Eight Articles)

    37:17
  6. Chapter 6

    Question 5 - OF THE ATTAINMENT OF HAPPINESS (In Eight Articles)

    45:01
  7. Chapter 7

    Question 6 - OF THE VOLUNTARY AND THE INVOLUNTARY (In Eight Articles), part 1

    24:01
  8. Chapter 8

    Question 6 - OF THE VOLUNTARY AND THE INVOLUNTARY (In Eight Articles), part 2

    21:37
  9. Chapter 9

    Question 7 - OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HUMAN ACTS (In Four Articles)

    24:18
  10. Chapter 10

    Question 8 - OF THE WILL, IN REGARD TO WHAT IT WILLS (In Three Articles)

    19:14
  11. Chapter 11

    Question 9 - OF THAT WHICH MOVES THE WILL (In Six Articles)

    36:21
  12. Chapter 12

    Question 10 - OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE WILL IS MOVED (In Four Articles)

    26:01
  13. Chapter 13

    Question 11 - OF ENJOYMENT, WHICH IS AN ACT OF THE WILL (In Four Articles)

    22:02
  14. Chapter 14

    Question 12 - OF INTENTION (In Five Articles)

    25:05
  15. Chapter 15

    Question 13 - OF CHOICE, WHICH IS AN ACT OF THE WILL WITH REGARD TO THE MEANS (In Six Articles)

    28:55
  16. Chapter 16

    Question 14 - OF COUNSEL, WHICH PRECEDES CHOICE (In Six Articles)

    25:16
  17. Chapter 17

    Question 15 - OF CONSENT, WHICH IS AN ACT OF THE WILL IN REGARD TO THE MEANS (In Four Articles)

    17:10
  18. Chapter 18

    Question 16 - OF USE, WHICH IS AN ACT OF THE WILL IN REGARD TO THE MEANS (In Four Articles)

    15:58
  19. Chapter 19

    Question 17 - OF THE ACTS COMMANDED BY THE WILL (In Nine Articles), part 1

    17:40
  20. Chapter 20

    Question 17 - OF THE ACTS COMMANDED BY THE WILL (In Nine Articles), part 2

    23:39
  21. Chapter 21

    Question 18 - OF THE GOOD AND EVIL OF HUMAN ACTS, IN GENERAL (In Eleven Articles), part 1

    27:01
  22. Chapter 22

    Question 18 - OF THE GOOD AND EVIL OF HUMAN ACTS, IN GENERAL (In Eleven Articles), part 2

    36:11
  23. Chapter 23

    Question 19 - OF THE GOODNESS AND MALICE OF THE INTERIOR ACT OF THE WILL (In Ten Articles), part 1

    56:45
  24. Chapter 24

    Question 19 - OF THE GOODNESS AND MALICE OF THE INTERIOR ACT OF THE WILL (In Ten Articles), part 2

    35:19
  25. Chapter 25

    Question 20 - OF GOODNESS AND MALICE IN EXTERNAL HUMAN ACTIONS (In Six Articles)

    33:49
  26. Chapter 26

    Question 21 - OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF HUMAN ACTIONS BY REASON OF THEIR GOODNESS AND MALICE (In Four Articles)

    22:50