ST II-II, q. 58

Of Justice

We must now consider justice. Under this head there are twelve points of inquiry:

(1) What is justice?

(2) Whether justice is always towards another?

(3) Whether it is a virtue?

(4) Whether it is in the will as its subject?

(5) Whether it is a general virtue?

(6) Whether, as a general virtue, it is essentially the same as every virtue?

(7) Whether there is a particular justice?

(8) Whether particular justice has a matter of its own?

(9) Whether it is about passions, or about operations only?

(10) Whether the mean of justice is the real mean?

(11) Whether the act of justice is to render to everyone his own?

(12) Whether justice is the chief of the moral virtues?

Articles

  1. a. 1Whether justice is fittingly defined as being the perpetual and constant will to render to each one his right?
  2. a. 2Whether justice is always towards one another?
  3. a. 3Whether justice is a virtue?
  4. a. 4Whether justice is in the will as its subject?
  5. a. 5Whether justice is a general virtue?
  6. a. 6Whether justice, as a general virtue, is essentially the same as all virtue?
  7. a. 7Whether there is a particular besides a general justice?
  8. a. 8Whether particular justice has a special matter?
  9. a. 9Whether justice is about the passions?
  10. a. 10Whether the mean of justice is the real mean?
  11. a. 11Whether the act of justice is to render to each one his own?
  12. a. 12Whether justice stands foremost among all moral virtues?

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