This book shows how the mature writings of Thomas Aquinas though written in the thirteenth century have much to offer the human mind and the relationship between intellect and will, body and soul.
Sir Anthony Kenny was formerly Master of Balliol College, Oxford and president of the British Academy. He is the author of many books on philosophy and over forty years has held almost every kind of post in Oxford from graduate student to pro-vice-chancellor. Robert Kenny is managing director of a consulting firm.
A volume on the nature, ingredients, causes, and consequences of human happiness by the father and son team of Anthony and Charles Kenny, this book is an updating of Samuel Johnson's famous lines: "How small of all that human hearts endure. That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned. Our own felicity we make or find.
