| ### QUESTION 146 ### OF ABSTINENCE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider the subjective parts of temperance: first, those which are about pleasures of food; secondly, those which are about pleasures of sex. The first consideration will include abstinence, which is about meat and drink, and sobriety, which is specifically about drink. #### With regard to abstinence three points have to be considered: (1) Abstinence itself; (2) its act which is fasting; (3) its opposite vice which is gluttony. Under the first head there are two points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether abstinence is a virtue? #### (2) Whether it is a special virtue? ####  |