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Order of Contents
Articles 3
Quotes 2
Historical 1
Latin 1
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Articles
1500’s
Vermigli, Peter Martyr – The Common Places… (London: Henrie Denham et al., 1583), pt. 1
14. ‘Of Felicity in General & of the Chiefest Good, out of the Commentaries upon Aristotle’s Ethics’ 132
‘Of Pleasure & wherein it may concur with the Chiefest Good’ 134
‘Of Honor’ 141
‘Of Riches, Beauty, Nobility & such like’ 145
‘Of Contemplation’ 149
‘That Virtue is not the Chief Good’ 176
‘The Causes of Felicity’ 154
15. ‘Whether any man can be counted happy while he lives here’ 158
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1600’s
Perkins, William – A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600)
50. Of the Estate of the Elect after Judgment
. A Corollary, or the Last Conclusion
Voet, Gisbert – Exercise on Thomas, Summa, pt. 1 of 2, q. 3, art. 4, on the Subject & Formal Acts of Beatitude in Exercise on Thomas, Summa, pt. 1, q. 12, art. 1, on the Vision of God through his Essence, etc., pp. 20-39 tr. by AI by WesternCatholike in Select Theological Disputations (Utrecht, 1655) Latin
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Quote
1200’s
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Contra Gentiles, bk. 1, ch. 11
“For man knows God naturally in the same way as he desires him naturally. Now man desires him naturally insofar as he naturally desires happiness, which is a likeness of the divine goodness.
Hence it does not follow that God considered in himself is naturally known to man, but that his likeness is. Therefore, man must come by reasoning to know God in the likenesses to him which he discovers in God’s effects.”
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On Aquinas
Edward Feser, Immortality of Souls: a Treatise on Human Nature (Editiones Scholastica, 2024), ch. 4, p. 137
“Like every other substance, a rational substance is of its nature directed toward some end. Aquinas would say that that end is its happiness, which is the realization of what is good for it.”
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Historical
On the 1600’s
Beck, Andreas – ‘Voetius on the Will as the Subject & Formal Act of Happiness’ in Church & School in Early Modern Protestantism
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Latin Article
1600’s
Voet, Gisbert – II. Of the Chief Good or of Blessedness in Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 1, tract 1 Abbr.
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