A Topic of Moral Theology

The Final End of Man

The last end to which moral theology directs man, and what beatitude consists in.

Within this topic

Also asked about as…

our final end · purpose of human life · what is man made for · why did god make me (ed.)

In the index as End · Beatitude · God, tendency to · Faculties, higher and lower · God · Good, true · Destination · Epikeia, broadly and strictly so called · Glory · Glory of God · Last end · Misery · Moral, good · Pleasure · Useful

In the manuals

Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology, On the Principles of Moral…, Book First. On The Ultimate End Of Man, n. ¶1 — Since moral theology teaches man the way by which he can come to his end, it first treats of the ultimate end of man, both so that he may know the end toward which he must tend by his acts, and so that the foundation and… Read in context →

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, Bk. I, Tr. I, Dissertation II. On the Final End of Man, nn. ¶1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 (8 passages — hover a number to read it)

Commentaries on the Nature of Moral Theology, on Conscience and Probabilism, on the Fourth Precept, and on the Sixth and Ninth Precepts of the Decalogue (Commentarii)

Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910), First Commentary: On the Nature of Moral Theology, n. 36 — 36. But the fundamental and universal objective principle of demonstration, pervading and governing the whole of moral Theology, is that God is the ultimate end of man, and accordingly that man is bound by obligation to … Read in context →

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On the Last End …, Question One: On the Ultimate End in Common, nn. ¶1, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20 (34 passages — hover a number to read it)

Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On the Last End …, Question Two: On Objective Beatitude, nn. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 & 29 (41 passages — hover a number to read it)

Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium

Chapter V — On the fewness of the Elect, and the multitude of the Reprobate, nn. I–XIV (14 passages)

A Brief Text-Book of Moral Philosophy

Chapter I: The End to Which Human Acts are to be Directed, nn. 13, 14, ¶29, ¶30, 15, 16, 17, ¶34, 18, 19, 20, 21, ¶39, ¶40, 22, ¶42, ¶43, ¶44, 23, ¶46, ¶47, ¶48 & 24 (23 passages — hover a number to read it)

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

Vol. I, Pt. I, Q. I, Art. 3. Acts as Moral, Perfect and Essential Goodness, nn. 87 & 88 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology

Vol. II, Fundamental Moral Theology…, On Human Acts — Chapter II: On the Morality of the Human Act, nn. 153, 154, 155, 156 & 157 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading The Last End of Man (Beatitude) — Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Rickaby, Moral Philosophy · The Roman Catechism — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)