| ### QUESTION 23 ### OF CHARITY, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### In proper sequence, we must consider charity; and (1) charity itself; (2) the corresponding gift of wisdom. The first consideration will be fivefold: (1) Charity itself; (2) The object of charity; (3) Its acts; (4) The opposite vices; (5) The precepts relating thereto. #### The first of these considerations will be twofold: (1) Charity, considered as regards itself; (2) Charity, considered in its relation to its subject. Under the first head there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether charity is friendship? #### (2) Whether it is something created in the soul? #### (3) Whether it is a virtue? #### (4) Whether it is a special virtue? #### (5) Whether it is one virtue? #### (6) Whether it is the greatest of the virtues? #### (7) Whether any true virtue is possible without it? #### (8) Whether it is the form of the virtues? ####  |