- Is pleasure required for happiness?
- Which is of greater account in happiness, pleasure or vision?
- Is comprehension required?
- Is rectitude of the will required?
- Is the body necessary for man's happiness?
- Is any perfection of the body necessary?
- Are any external goods necessary?
- Is the fellowship of friends necessary?
"It is because the contemporary alternatives seem so one-sided and are not more evidently solutions to the problems which Thomas faced, and partly solved, that we return to him and to the tradition of theology and philosophy in which his Summa Theologiae appears: theology as the science of the first principle and this as the total knowledge of reality in its unity." -- Wayne J. Hankey, God in Himself (Oxford University Press, 1987), p.159.