What is Happiness? | Father Dominic Legge, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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The Importance of Sense Experience
Aquinas says bodily pleasure cannot result from the perfect good. The highest good has to be a spiritual thing, so spiritual things may eventually overflow into the body. He does say that in question five, I think question four or question five he talks about this kind of overflow but it's not essential. To the spiritual delight. That you have a body that can feel it. But bodily pleasure is not where you find the ultimate end. Because the body is not. And therefore should not be the end itself,. Right? Have I answered your question? Great. Yeah. Thanks for your lecture. So I'm not going to ask that, but I do want to mention coffee quickly because I
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