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What is Needed for Happiness? | Father Dominic Legge, O.P.

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The Imperfect Happiness of Aquinas

Aquinas says we're cop ox in two ways. In one sense, capable of attaining the ends that are proportioned to our nature. He thinks there is a real, but imperfect sense of happiness there. But it's an imperfect happiness that's going to be bounded by what our nature can achieve. The fall makes this picture very complicated because it means that we start up in the whole. And so even reaching our natural ends becomes very difficult for us after the fall.

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