Thank you for subscribing to Annotated Thomist...check back each day for a new section of St. Thomas' corpus, annotated and summarized. (FREE TRIAL FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS!!!)
AT is also available to donors of $10 or more on Patreon or SubscribeStar along with all of the other benefits (daily bonus videos, bonus articles, PDFs, etc.)
If you need more personalized help reading the Summa, I am available for 1-on-1 sessions, here.
Lastly, St. Thomas provides a division of goodness in its relation to the intellectual agent. For, goodness is beings relation to the appetite.
Now, the appetite can be related to a certain good in three ways. First, it may desire it relatively, i.e., as a certain proximate means, as a man desires a certain medication. This is called the "useful."
Second, it may desire it absolutely, i.e., as the end itself which it desires, as a man desires health through his medication. This is called the virtuous.