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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." 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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3." 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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4."... 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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5." The three theological virtues are faith, hope, and charity; the four moral are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance."

Source:  Gordon, Mary. "DESPERATELY SEEKING JOAN - Woman behind the hype" Commonweal 127.5 Mar. 10 2000: 11

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6."... which are intended to serve the purposes of moral prudence and virtue, but which may be used in preference for opposite ends."

Source:  HEFFERNAN, JEANNE. ""Poised between Savagery and Civilization": Forging Political Communities in Ford's Westerns" Perspectives on Political Science 28.3 June 22 1999: 147

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7." The women yesterday released a book titled "Weaving Character into Sex Education." The book urges public schools to teach "natural moral law" and "universal" character-building virtues such as prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude."

Source:  Wetzstein, Cheryl. "Abstinence backers cite result of permissiveness" Washington Times Sept. 12 1998: 7

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8." 15. Galston, Politics and Excellence, p. 125, sees the difference between the two accounts of prudence in terms of the "implied" reference to moral virtue in the first account."

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

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9." In the Summa, one needs the intellectual virtue of prudence to reach the right conclusions from sense impressions; prudence in turn is formed in Aquinas's Christian system by justice and finally the grace of charity.(66) Here Aquinas transposed that into Pauline language."

Source:  Rogers, Eugene F., Jr. "The narrative of natural law in Aquinas's commentary on Romans 1" Theological Studies v59.n2 June 1 1998: 254-277

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10." After developing and defending the principle of practical rationality, the basic human goods, and the guidelines for prudence, Gomez-Lobo is in a position to present the moral norms."

Source:  Sanford, Jonathan J. "Gomez-Lobo, Alfonso. Morality and the Human Goods: an Introduction to Natural Law Ethics" Review of Metaphysics 57.2 Dec. 1 2003: 406-408

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11." Thus an author could use this language to underwrite the possibilty of seeking either contemplation of God or attainment of virtue and prudence for effective life action either by the path of divine illumination or by means of natural human effort."

Source:  BOULDIN, WOOD. "Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge" Renaissance Quarterly 52.4 Dec. 22 1999: 1161

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12." James Nash's chapter, "On the Subversive Virtue: Frugality," suggests one means of personally unifying morality and prudence."

Source:  Thiele, Leslie Paul. "Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice, and GlobalStewardship" American Political Science Review 94.1 Mar. 1 2000: 167

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13." But while Icelandic teens seemed to sacrifice their self-interest for what they thought was the right moral choice--sticking with their old pal--their Chinese counterparts traded altruistic virtue for close friendship."

Source:  Howe, Jeff. "Foreign Friendships" Psychology Today 32.2 Mar. 1 1999: 12-13

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14." He's right+ I think, in observing that in Confucius' moral discourse one cannot find the element of really basic existential choice--but wrong if he thinks that there are no "interior" virtues there."

Source:  Behuniak, James,Nivison, David S. "Nivison and the "Problem" in Xunzi's Ethics" Philosophy East and West 50.1 Jan. 1 2000: 97

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15." 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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16."... recommends to us the virtue of prudence; concern for that of other people, the virtues of justice and beneficence--of which the one restrains us from hurting, the other prompts us to promote that happiness."

Source:  Szenberg, Michael. "IMAGINATION AND MORALITY, A NOTE" American Economist 43.2 Sept. 22 1999: 92

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17."... virtues (charity, faith and hope) and the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude), and finally, the removal of vices (lust, gluttony, anger, avarice, envy, sloth and pride)."

Source:  Courtenay, William J. "Thomas de Chobham, Summa de Commendatione Virtutum et Extirpatione Vitiorum" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 50.2 Apr. 1 1999: 355-357

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18."... be free to make genuinely moral choices in its practical deliberations, then its knowledge of those opportunities could not be determined by passively-received sensory input."

Source:  MILNES, TIM. "Seeing in the Dark: Hazlitt's Immanent Idealism" Studies in Romanticism 39.1 Mar. 22 2000: 3

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19." 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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20." Aronson is surely right to remind us that both Sartre and Camus fastened on part of the truth--the need, on the one hand, for real, if unpretty choices and, on the other, for moral verities."

Source:  Jacoby, Russell. "Accidental friends" Nation 278.13 Apr. 5 2004: 25

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21."... points will appear insufficient to those critics who retort that liberal civility is no virtue, since it is not primarily driven by such admirable ideals but instead by mere prudence."

Source:  Meyer, Michael J. "Liberal Civility and the Civility of Etiquette: Public Ideals and Personal Lives" Social Theory and Practice 26.1 Mar. 22 2000: 69

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22."... is fear in the face of danger that invites the ideal of courage; it is our natural worry about threats to our livelihood or our well-being that prompts the virtue of prudence; and it is out of..."

Source:  HUNTER, JAMES DAVISON. "When psychotherapy replaces religion" Public Interest Mar. 22 2000: 5

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23."... of the great operative checks upon an increasing population arises from virtue, prudence or pride. (Godwin 1801: 72-73; emphasis added) MALTHUS'S NEW THEORY OF POPULATION AND THE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS EMANATING THEREFROM Swayed..."

Source:  Jensen, Hans E. "The Development of T.R. Malthus's Institutionalist Approach to the Cure of Poverty: From Punishment of the Poor to Investment in Their Human Capital" Review of Social Economy 57.4 Dec. 1 1999: 450

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24." Thomas Lickona, professor of education, favors virtues derived from Plato and Aristotle: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance."

Source:  Leo, John. "C is for character" U.S. News & World Report 127.19 Nov. 15 1999: 20

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25." Nevertheless, the single virtue of prudence, as important as it is in this story, neither suffices to pull together all the elements at work in the epilogue, nor can it adequately relate them to the rest of the story."

Source:  Martin, Thomas L. "TIME AND ETERNITY IN TROILUS AND CRISEYDE" Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 51.3 Mar. 22 1999: 167

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