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The Search for Happiness: Wisdom from Aquinas and the Classical Tradition | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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Aquinas' Understanding of Pleasure

Aquinas: Pleasure is not a thing that you can aim at. When you do something well, then there's a kind of pleasure that arises from it. Emmanuel Kant did not really have a very positive sense of pleasure. But for Aquinas, actually pleasure is linked to right action and to happiness.

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