| ### QUESTION 141 ### OF TEMPERANCE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### In the next place we must consider temperance: (1) Temperance itself; (2) its parts; (3) its precepts. With regard to temperance we must consider (1) temperance itself; (2) the contrary vices. #### Under the first head there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether temperance is a virtue? #### (2) Whether it is a special virtue? #### (3) Whether it is only about desires and pleasures? #### (4) Whether it is only about pleasures of touch? #### (5) Whether it is about pleasures of taste, as such, or only as a kind of touch? #### (6) What is the rule of temperance? #### (7) Whether it is a cardinal, or principal, virtue? #### (8) Whether it is the greatest of virtues ? ####  |