Whether liberality is a part of justice?
Objections
❌ Objection 1 : It seems that liberality is not a part of justice. For justice regards that which is due. Now the more a thing is due the less liberally is it given. Therefore liberality is not a part of justice, but is incompatible with it.
❌ Objection 2 : Further, justice is about operation as stated above (Question [58], Article [9]; FS, Question [60], Articles [2],3): whereas liberality is chiefly about the love and desire of money, which are passions. Therefore liberality seems to belong to temperance rather than to justice.
❌ Objection 3 : Further, it belongs chiefly to liberality to give becomingly, as stated (Article [4]). But giving becomingly belongs to beneficence and mercy, which pertain to charity, as state above (Questions [30],31). Therefore liberality is a part of charity rather than of justice.