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

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The Power of Pleasure

A good activity done well will give some kind of delectatio. It's the result of having the thing or maybe better doing the thing that makes you happy. Aquinas is going to analyze here that bodily pleasure is not really the highest form of pleasure, but a spiritual delectatio is more powerful. We could think about other pleasures like teaching someone and seeing them get it. That would be a kind of a natural spiritual pleasure.

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