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    Thomas Aquinas' moral philosophy combines Aristotelian eudaimonism with Christian theology. For Aquinas, happiness is the goal of human actions, but ultimate happiness consists of supernatural union with God, which cannot be achieved through human nature alone but requires God's grace. While human nature is diminished by original sin, God provides virtues and gifts through grace to help conform our wills to His and restore our nature. Aquinas' views provide context for understanding his unique synthesis of Christian teachings and Aristotelian philosophy on topics like virtue, natural law, and the human end.

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    Morality Os ST Thomas Aquinas

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    Thomas Aquinas' moral philosophy combines Aristotelian eudaimonism with Christian theology. For Aquinas, happiness is the goal of human actions, but ultimate happiness consists of supernatural union with God, which cannot be achieved through human nature alone but requires God's grace. While human nature is diminished by original sin, God provides virtues and gifts through grace to help conform our wills to His and restore our nature. Aquinas' views provide context for understanding his unique synthesis of Christian teachings and Aristotelian philosophy on topics like virtue, natural law, and the human end.

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    Thomas Aquinas' moral philosophy combines Aristotelian eudaimonism with Christian theology. For Aquinas, happiness is the goal of human actions, but ultimate happiness consists of supernatural union with God, which cannot be achieved through human nature alone but requires God's grace. While human nature is diminished by original sin, God provides virtues and gifts through grace to help conform our wills to His and restore our nature. Aquinas' views provide context for understanding his unique synthesis of Christian teachings and Aristotelian philosophy on topics like virtue, natural law, and the human end.

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    Thomas Aquinas: Moral Philosophy

    The moral philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-


    1274) involves a merger of at least two apparently
    disparate traditions: Aristotelian eudaimonism and
    Christian theology. On the one hand, Aquinas follows
    Aristotle in thinking that an act is good or bad
    depending on whether it contributes to or deters us
    from our proper human end—the telos or final goal at
    which all human actions aim.
    That telos is eudaimonia, or happiness, where
    “happiness” is understood in terms of completion,
    perfection, or well-being. Achieving happiness,
    however, requires a range of intellectual and moral
    virtues that enable us to understand the nature of
    happiness and motivate us to seek it in a reliable and
    consistent way.

    Aquinas believes that we can never achieve complete or final happiness in this life. For
    him, final happiness consists in beatitude, or supernatural union with God. Such an end
    lies far beyond what we through our natural human capacities can attain. For this
    reason, we not only need the virtues, we also need God to transform our nature to
    perfect or “deify” it—so that we might be suited to participate in divine beatitude.
    Moreover, Aquinas believes that we inherited a propensity to sin from our first parent,
    Adam. While our nature is not wholly corrupted by sin, it is nevertheless diminished by
    sin’s stain, as evidenced by the fact that our wills are at enmity with God’s. We need
    God’s help in order to restore the good of our nature and bring us into conformity with
    his will. To this end, God imbues us with his grace which comes in the form of divinely
    instantiated virtues and gifts.

    This article first considers Aquinas’s metaethical views. Those views provide a good
    context for understanding his unique synthesis of Christian teaching and Aristotelian
    philosophy. Also, his meta-ethical views provide an ideal background for understanding
    other features of his moral philosophy such as the nature of human action, virtue,
    natural law, and the ultimate end of human beings. While contemporary moral
    philosophers tend to address these subjects as discrete topics of study, Aquinas’s
    treatment of them yields a bracing, comprehensive view of the moral life. This article
    presents these subjects in a way that illuminates their interconnected roles.
    What is happiness according to St Thomas Aquinas?

    Imperfect happiness can be lost, but perfect happiness cannot. Neither man nor any


    creature can attain final happiness through his natural powers. Since happiness is a
    good surpassing anything that has been created, no creature, even an angel, is capable
    of making man happy. Happiness is the reward for works of virtue.

    How are Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas connected?

    There is a strong relationship between Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and what you call


    the "moral theory" of St. Thomas (Aquinas). They both agree that happiness is the
    ultimate good, or desired "end" of human beings

    What is Aquinas ethical theory?

    Aquinas's ethical theory involves both principles – rules about how to act – and virtues –
    personality traits which are taken to be good or moral to have. ... Aquinas, in contrast,
    believes that moral thought is mainly about bringing moral order to one's own action and
    will.

    Did Thomas Aquinas believe in God?

    For Aquinas, the statement God exists is self-evident in itself since existence is a part


    of God's essence or nature (that is, God is his existence—a claim to which we'll turn
    below

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