Man, Beatitude, and God, in Summa Theologiae I-II, qq. 1-6

Abstract

This article studies Aquinas' proposal on Summa Theologica I-II, qq-1-6, where he studies how should the final end of man be, concluding that it should be transcendental in a certain way, but also immanent in another, and that God is the immanent end; then, he studies the way in which man will achieve such end and he notes that it requires unity in three ways: unity between body and soul, between intelligence and will, and finally, between man itself, who is well disposed to contemplation and contemplation itself.