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title: "Summa Theologica, First Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 1020 of 1210
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-first-half/1020/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, First Half, section 1020. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-first-half/1020/"
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# Summa Theologica, First Half

*Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province*

God and creation, human action, law and grace, then faith, hope, charity and justice.

## 1020. II–II · Question 58: Of Justice (twelve Articles)

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[¶0] OF JUSTICE (TWELVE ARTICLES)

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

[¶2] (1) What is justice?

[¶3] (2) Whether justice is always towards another?

[¶4] (3) Whether it is a virtue?

[¶5] (4) Whether it is in the will as its subject?

[¶6] (5) Whether it is a general virtue?

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

[¶8] (7) Whether there is a particular justice?

[¶9] (8) Whether particular justice has a matter of its own?

[¶10] (9) Whether it is about passions, or about operations only?

[¶11] (10) Whether the mean of justice is the real mean?

[¶12] (11) Whether the act of justice is to render to everyone his own?

[¶13] (12) Whether justice is the chief of the moral virtues?