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Joseph Stenberg’s Aquinas and the Ethics of Happiness provides a detailed examination of Thomas Aquinas’s moral philosophy and his conception of happiness as the ultimate human good. The work traces how Aquinas integrated Aristotelian ethics with Christian doctrine to create a unified ethical system grounded in both reason and revelation.
Stenberg analyzes Aquinas’s key concepts including virtue, natural law, divine law, and the role of grace in achieving happiness. The book explores how Aquinas understood happiness not as mere pleasure or subjective satisfaction, but as the perfection of human nature through the development of virtues and the pursuit of divine union. Special attention is given to the relationship between human reason and faith in Aquinas’s ethical thought, demonstrating how virtue ethics and Christian theology complement each other in his comprehensive philosophical vision.
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