Question 31 — Of Delight Considered in Itself

We must now consider delight and sadness. Concerning delight four things must be considered: (1) Delight in itself; (2) The causes of delight; (3) Its effects; (4) Its goodness and malice.

Under the first head there are eight points of inquiry:

(1) Whether delight is a passion?

• (2) Whether delight is subject to time?
• (3) Whether it differs from joy?
• (4) Whether it is in the intellectual appetite?
• (5) Of the delights of the higher appetite compared with the delight of the lower;
• (6) Of sensible delights compared with one another;
• (7) Whether any delight is non-natural?
• (8) Whether one delight can be contrary to another?