- Does it belong to man to act for an end?
- Is this proper to the rational nature?
- Are a man's actions specified by their end?
- Is there any last end of human life?
- Can one man have several last ends?
- Does man ordain all to the last end?
- Do all men have the same last end?
- Do all other creatures concur with man in that last end?
"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.