| ### QUESTION 20 ### OF GOODNESS AND MALICE IN EXTERNAL HUMAN AFFAIRS ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must next consider goodness and malice as to external actions: under which head there are six points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether goodness and malice is first in the act of the will, or in the external action? #### (2) Whether the whole goodness or malice of the external action depends on the goodness of the will? #### (3) Whether the goodness and malice of the interior act are the same as those of the external action? #### (4) Whether the external action adds any goodness or malice to that of the interior act? #### (5) Whether the consequences of an external action increase its goodness or malice? #### (6) Whether one and the same external action can be both good and evil? ####  |