Section — McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology
Introduction
1688.
(Summa Theologica, II-II, qq. 57-60.)
After prudence follows justice. This virtue regulates human actions and renders to others their due, and so it has preeminence over fortitude and temperance, which govern the passions and make man virtuous as regards his own acts only and not as regards his neighbor. The logical order, then, is that justice should precede fortitude and temperance.