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1."... technical account of politics by comparing it with a nontechnical account of virtue in which phron[right arrow]sis, which he understands, after Aristotle's account, as "prudence" or "practical wisdom," plays a key role.(14) Yet precisely on our issue, which..."

Source:  Kochin, Michael S. "Plato's Eleatic and Athenian sciences of politics" Review of Politics 61.1 Jan. 1 1999: 57-59

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2." The ancients called this mixed experience of liberty and risk-taking and uncertainty "practical wisdom," phronesis, prudence."

Source:  Novak, Michael. "Just peace and the asymmetric threat: national self-defense in uncharted waters" Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 27.3 June 22 2004: 817-842

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3." I am especially grateful for the way in which Mr. Wistrich guides the discussion of Pius XII into the ethics of practical wisdom or prudence."

Source:  . "Letters from Readers" Commentary 108.1 July 1 1999: 5

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4." Galston uses the phrase "practical wisdom" to translate what we have been calling prudence."

Source:  Colmo, Christopher. "Alfarabi on the prudence of founders" Review of Politics 60.4 Sept. 22 1998: 719-721

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5." It also has to do, according to OED, with prudence and practical wisdom."

Source:  MALONE, RUTH E. "Policy as Product" Hastings Center Report 29.3 May 1 1999: 16

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6." In the final section Bill argues that Ball's career "provides a model of effective statecraft" (p. 203) based on prudence or Aristotelian phronesis (practical wisdom), a balance of means, ends, and praxis in a moral framework concerned with the public good."

Source:  Scott, James M. "George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy" American Political Science Review 93.3 Sept. 1 1999: 708

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7." In their wisdom, the framers understood the different natures of the two chambers and left the ultimate conclusion to the more deliberative Senate, where cooler heads and decorum were more..."

Source:  KASSOP, NANCY. "The Law: The Clinton Impeachment: Untangling the Web of Conflicting Considerations" Presidential Studies Quarterly 30.2 June 1 2000: 359

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8."... His delineation of some of the consequences of American secularistic ideology underlines the tensive nature of a "realism without virtue" and an "idealism without prudence." Bishirjian's essay shows not only the fallacy of "the millennial visions of the..."

Source:  Bishirjian, Richard J. "Origins and End of the New World Order" Modern Age 46.3 June 22 2004: 195-210

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9."... of yi in his theory of xin as the seat of the beginnings of the four cardinal virtues (siduan), namely ren, yi, li, and zhi (practical wisdom)."

Source:  Cua, Antonio S. "The ethical significance of shame: insights of Aristotle and Xunzi" Philosophy East and West 53.2 Apr. 1 2003: 147-203

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10." Therefore practical wisdom is also a moral virtue, a wisdom that can be learned only through long effort at trying to achieve the good in all that one does."

Source:  SCHWEIGERT, FRANCIS J. "Moral Education in Victim Offender Conferencing" Criminal Justice Ethics 18.2 June 22 1999: 29

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11." Prudence is the operative virtue, expedience the operative quality."

Source:  Avio, Kenneth L. "A modest proposal for institutional economics" Journal of Economic Issues 38.3 Sept. 1 2004: 715-746

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12."... is no translation for the name Dunhuang. p. 265 (caption): "The statue on the left is Kasyapa, shown here at an advanced age to emphasize his wisdom and proverbial prudence." As far as I know, Kasyapa is always (not only..."

Source:  Forte, Antonino. "Ancient China: Chinese Civilization from Its Origins to the Tang Dynasty" Journal of the American Oriental Society 123.4 Oct. 1 2003: 851-861

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13." Wilson writes, "These narratives suggest that the path to wisdom is not always the path of prudence; sometimes the path of prurience--in which desire is encouraged only to be subverted in the end--is much more efficacious (p. 12)."

Source:  Manlowe, Jennifer L. "Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in IndianBuddhist Hagiographic Literature" Philosophy East and West 49.2 Apr. 1 1999: 227

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14." Complicating the issue further, Ana herself comes to laud the particular judge that ousted her family, granting him "prudence, wisdom, and diligence" in his carrying out the expulsion of the Moriscos (Cervantes 998)."

Source:  Byrne, K.B. Conal. "OPEN-ENDED: THE CAPTIVE'S TALES OF DON QUIJOTE" Romanic Review 90.1 Jan. 1 1999: 115

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15."... the other hand, if the quiet negotiations of Iran's Jewish community save the thirteen, the wisdom of exercising prudence and pursuing diplomacy in the face of lethal hostility will be vindicated."

Source:  . "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Commonweal 126.19 Nov. 5 1999: 5

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16."... Aquinas discussed discernment in the context of the moral virtue of prudence (Summa theologiae 1-2, q. 65); for him, prudence served the same role as discernment in terms of coming to good moral decisions through grace in concrete historical situations by engaging the objective..."

Source:  PANICOLA, MICHAEL R. "DISCERNMENT IN THE NEONATAL CONTEXT" Theological Studies 60.4 Dec. 1 1999: 723

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17." Prudence enables one to follow precedent in ordinary decisions because the procedure itself is an imperfect approximation of a higher law of virtue; but prudence also..."

Source:  Kaynak, Robert P. "God and Man in the Law: The Foundations of Anglo-AmericanConstitutionalism" American Political Science Review v92.n2 June 1 1998: 431-433

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18." It is by no means guaranteed that presidents will spend judiciously or engage the world with prudence and wisdom."

Source:  ROCKMAN, BERT A. "Reinventing What for Whom? President and Congress in the Making of Foreign Policy" Presidential Studies Quarterly 30.1 Mar. 1 2000: 133

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19." The conventional wisdom has it that the United States Senate - once regarded as the World's Greatest Deliberative Body - will wrap up action this week on legislation granting permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to the People's Republic of China."

Source:  Gaffney, Frank. "Bipartisan PNTR repair" Washington Times Sept. 12 2000: 18

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20."... Abraham's key for the higher category of mental decisions (mentis), which then undergoes a further dichotomous split into sapientia (done by wisdom) above and prudentia (done for reasons of prudence) below."

Source:  Mohlenbrock, Robert H. "Leaf Reading in Oahu" Natural History 109.7 Sept. 1 2000: 26

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21." Thus, we discover a line connecting Thomas's synthesis to the philosophers of the modern enlightenment whom Lessing would rebuke for having "evaded the contradiction between wisdom and prudence by becoming much too wise to submit to the rule of prudence which had been observed by Leibniz..."

Source:  Merrill, Clark A. "Leo Strauss's Indictment of Christain Philosophy" Review of Politics 62.1 Jan. 1 2000: 77

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22."... War II. But it is also diminishing our capacity for the rational analysis and deliberative judgment on which public wisdom depends and on which effective government depends."

Source:  O'NEILL, MICHAEL J. "Media Power and the Dangers of Mass Information" Nieman Reports 53.4 Dec. 22 1999: 167

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23." He says that the prototypical bourgeois virtue of prudence earns only our "cold esteem"; his analysis, in the Wealth of Nations, of the deadening..."

Source:  Fukuyama, Francis. "Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment" Public Interest .136 June 22 1999: 121-126

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24." Indeed, my fear is that Bowling Alone's most admirable virtues--the cautious prudence with which explanations are advanced and the subordination of grand theory to prosaic data--will become vices..."

Source:  Barber, Benjamin R. "The Crack in the Picture Window" Nation 271.5 Aug. 7 2000: 29

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25." The notion of tao is obviously quite congenial to an ethics of virtue, especially if the tao is viewed akin to prudence as the form of the virtues, as well as to the related notion of moral virtuosity,..."

Source:  BRETZKE, JAMES T. "MORAL THEOLOGY OUT OF EAST ASIA" Theological Studies 61.1 Mar. 1 2000: 106

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