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We left off having finished question two, basically.

So that leaves us in question three and three, four, and five remaining.

So I think I'm going to admit defeat in terms of like going carefully through the texts.

And so I'm going to step back a little bit from the texts and speak more generally about the principles for, I think, understanding what Aquinas is talking about.

So this is not exactly how I prepared this lecture.

But we'll, I'll try to dip into the text, but maybe a little less carefully than I had hoped.

So we saw in question one, Aquinas talking about the last end.

Now we've seen in question two, he's talking about what does happiness consistent?

And we've discovered that pleasure is actually a really important part of the answer.

Getting one's pleasures rightly ordered is actually key to moral maturity.

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