- Is pleasure a passion?
- Is pleasure subject to time?
- Does it differ from joy?
- Is it in the intellectual appetite?
- The pleasures of the higher appetite compared with the pleasure of the lower
- Sensible pleasures compared with one another
- Is any pleasure non-natural?
- Can one pleasure be contrary to another?
"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.