| ### QUESTION 3 ### WHAT IS HAPPINESS ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We have now to consider (1) what happiness is, and (2) what things are required for it. #### Concerning the first there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether happiness is something uncreated? #### (2) If it be something created, whether it is an operation? #### (3) Whether it is an operation of the sensitive, or only of the intellectual part? #### (4) If it be an operation of the intellectual part, whether it is an operation of the intellect, or of the will? #### (5) If it be an operation of the intellect, whether it is an operation of the speculative or of the practical intellect? #### (6) If it be an operation of the speculative intellect, whether it consists in the consideration of speculative sciences? #### (7) Whether it consists in the consideration of separate substances viz. angels? #### (8) Whether it consists in the sole contemplation of God seen in His Essence? ####  |