Question 44 — The Precepts of Charity

We must now consider the Precepts of Charity, under which there are eight points of inquiry:

(1) Whether precepts should be given about charity?

• (2) Whether there should be one or two?
• (3) Whether two suffice?
• (4) Whether it is fittingly prescribed that we should love God, with thy whole heart?
• (5) Whether it is fittingly added: With thy whole mind, etc.?
• (6) Whether it is possible to fulfill this precept in this life?
• (7) Of the precept: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;
• (8) Whether the order of charity is included in the precept?