La cuestión disputada De natura beatitudinis. Estudio preliminar y traducción
Keywords:
Thomas Aquinas, Blessedness, Quaestio Disputata, Authenticity,, Index ThomisticusAbstract
The article analyzes the disputed question De natura beatitudinis, whose authenticity was
the subject of controversy at the beginning of the 20th century. Although it is not an original
work of Saint Thomas Aquinas, its content displays doctrinal coherence with Thomistic
thought, especially regarding the intellectual primacy of the beatific act. The study aims to
determine the material location of the question within Vatican Latin manuscript 784,
belonging to the collection of Pope John XXII. Within this framework, it examines the
historiographical debate surrounding its authorship, bringing into dialogue the positions of
Pierre Mandonnet and Antoine Dondaine, as well as the internal and external criteria used to
assess its authenticity. Despite its apocryphal character, the doctrinal relevance of De natura
beatitudinis is acknowledged in support of its inclusion in the Index Thomisticus, on account
of its conformity with Aquinas’s doctrine. Finally, a previously unpublished Spanish
translation of the question is provided, in order to facilitate Spanish-speaking readers’ access
to a text representative of the Thomistic conception of the beatific act.
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