Journal Name:
- Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
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Abstract (2. Language):
THOMAS AQUINAS ON HAPPINESS
Thomas Aquinas is one of the greatest thinkers of Christianity. His ethical theory, together
with the theories of Augustine and Abelard, constitutes one of the main ethical theories of
Medieval Christianity. Aquinas develops his theory most extensively and systematically in
the Second Part of the Summa Theologica. For Aquinas ethics has two principal topics: first,
what is the ultimate goal of human being, and second, how that goal is to be achieved. The
aim of this study is to present Aquinas’ understanding of happiness in general. For this
reason it will discuss the following questions: What is the ultimate goal of human being?
What constitutes man’s happiness? What is happiness? What are the things required for
happiness? Whether happiness can be attained? The article concludes that Aquinas tries to
harmonise Aristotelian ethics with Christianity, and in doing so he adds new dimensions to
the Aristotelian ethics.
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