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Join Prof. Michael Wahl (Providence College) and other students to discuss Aquinas on happiness in the Summa Theologiae. The group will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays between March 4 and March 27 to discuss short readings on the reading group’s theme.

Description:

This reading group will explore selected articles from the first five questions of the Prima Secundae of St. Thomas’s Summa Theologiae. These questions, traditionally called the “treatise on happiness,” serve as the introduction to Aquinas’s moral theology understood as the pursuit of the human person’s ultimate end of beatitude—union with God. This reading group will explore topics including what it means to act for an end, the concept of a “last end,” the nature of beatitude, the conditions necessary for beatitude, and the possibility of attaining beatitude.

Readings:

• ST I-II, q. 1, aa. 1, 4, 7

• ST I-II, q. 2, aa. 1, 2, 3, 4

• ST I-II, q. 2, aa. 5, 7, 8

• ST I-II, q. 3, aa. 1, 2, 8

• ST I-II, q. 4, aa. 4, 5, 6

• ST I-II, q. 4, aa. 7, 8

• ST I-II, q. 5, aa. 1, 2, 3

• ST I-II, q. 5, aa. 4, 5, 7

When? Mondays and Wednesdays between March 4 and March 27

What time? 7:30-8:30 pm ET

Where? Zoom

Who can apply? Undergraduate students

Application Deadline? February 26

Space is limited. These reading groups are intentionally small to facilitate good discussion. If you are admitted, please be diligent in attending. Additionally, if you are not admitted to this group, we encourage you to apply to other groups later in the semester.