| ### QUESTION 17 ### OF HOPE, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### After treating of faith, we must consider hope and (1) hope itself; (2) the gift of fear; (3) the contrary vices; (4) the corresponding precepts. The first of these points gives rise to a twofold consideration: (1) hope, considered in itself; (2) its subject. #### Under the first head there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether hope is a virtue? #### (2) Whether its object is eternal happiness? #### (3) Whether, by the virtue of hope, one man may hope for another's happiness? #### (4) Whether a man may lawfully hope in man? #### (5) Whether hope is a theological virtue? #### (6) Of its distinction from the other theological virtues? #### (7) Of its relation to faith; #### (8) Of its relation to charity. ####  |