Prudence


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1 The nature of prudence, as practical wisdom, as a virtue or quality of the deliberative mind.
2 The place of prudence among the virtues of the mind.
3 Practical or political wisdom distinguished from speculative or philosophical wisdom.
4 Prudence distinguished from art, action or doing contrasted with production or making.
5 The relation of prudence to intuitive reason or to the understanding of the natural law, the moral perception of particulars.
6 The interdependence of prudence and the moral virtues, the parts played by deliberation, will, and emotion in human conduct.
7 Moral virtue as determining the end for which prudence makes a right choice of means, right desire as the standard of practical truth.
8 Prudence as a factor in the formation and maintenance of moral virtue, the determination of the relative or subjective mean.
9 Shrewdness or cleverness as the counterfeit of prudence, the abuses of casuistry.
10 Prudence, continence, and temperance.
11 The vices of imprudence, precipitance and undue caution.
12 The sphere of prudence.
13 The confinement of prudence to the things within our power.
14 The restriction of prudence to the consideration of means rather than ends.
15 The nature of a prudent judgment.
16 The conditions of prudent choice, counsel, deliberation, judgment.
17 The acts of the practical reason in matters open to choice, decision and command, leading to execution or use.
18 The maxims of prudence.
19 Prudence in relation to the common good of the community.
20 Political prudence, the prudence of the prince or statesman, of the subject or citizen.
21 Jurisprudence, prudence in the determination of laws and the adjudication of cases.


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