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Question 31 - Pleasure in Itself

from Thomas Aquinas: Questions on the Passions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2024

Edited and translated by
Robert Miner
Affiliation:
Providence College, Rhode Island
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One should next consider pleasure and sorrow. About pleasure, four points should be considered: first, pleasure in itself; second, the causes of pleasure; third, its effects; fourth, its goodness and evilness. About the first point, eight queries are raised. (1) Whether pleasure is a passion. (2) Whether it exists in time. (3) Whether it differs from joy. (4) Whether it is in the intellectual appetite. (5) On a comparison of pleasures of the higher appetite to the pleasure of the lower appetite. (6) On a comparison of sensible pleasures to one another. (7) Whether any pleasure is non-natural. (8) Whether pleasure can be contrary to pleasure.

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Thomas Aquinas: Questions on the Passions
Summa Theologiae 1a2ae 22-48
, pp. 80 - 94
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Pleasure in Itself
  • Edited and translated by Robert Miner, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book: Thomas Aquinas: Questions on the Passions
  • Online publication: 20 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009450379.011
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  • Edited and translated by Robert Miner, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book: Thomas Aquinas: Questions on the Passions
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  • Pleasure in Itself
  • Edited and translated by Robert Miner, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book: Thomas Aquinas: Questions on the Passions
  • Online publication: 20 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009450379.011
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