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    Prudence is the cardinal virtue that governs and disciplines oneself through reason. It is considered the mother of all virtues. Prudence has integral parts that include memory, docility, intelligence, shrewdness, reasoning, foresight, circumspection, and caution. These allow one to make prudent judgments by weighing circumstances and determining the correct action. Prudence involves counsel through research and judgment through discerning and applying rules to situations.

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    PRUDENCE

    Week 8: Introduction to Philosophy of the Human Person


    TOPICS :

    1. Prudence
    2. Integral Parts of Prudence
    3. Potential Parts of Prudence
    PRUDENCE (Merriam Webster Dictionary)
    The ability to govern and discipline oneself
    by the use of reason.
    FOUR CARDINAL VIRTUES

    PRUDENCE
    Mother of all Virtue

    TEMPERANCE

    JUSTICE
    FORTITUDE
    PRUDENCE

    PRUDENCE in PRUDENTIA
    Old French in Latin

    FORESIGHT ,SAGACITY
    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
     Knowledge
     All virtues must be regulated by it
     It is an intellectual and moral virtue
     Synonymous to cautiousness
     Application of universal principles and an
    understanding of universal moral
     The auriga virtutum or the charioteer of the
    virtues
     The perfected ability to make right decisions
     Without prudence, bravery becomes
    foolhardiness; mercy sinks into weakness,
    and temperance into fanaticism.

     The measure of moral virtues since it


    provides a model of ethically good actions.
    INTEGRAL PARTS
    OF
    PRUDENCE
    Life - basically
    good
    TRUTH
    "All men by nature desire
    to know“- Aristotle
    Beauty
    to see it, to intuit it,
    to contemplate it
    Leisure, Play, Art
    -Man is a maker
    Sociability- harmony
    between himself and
    others
    Religion- Man aspires
    after what is higher
    than him
    Marriage
    - to belong to another
    exclusively in one
    flesh union
    Integrity
    - seek
    integration
    within himself
    The First Principle of Morality

    Self -evident Presupposed in


    every human
    action
    “Good is to be done,
    Evil is to be avoided.”
    Elements that must be present
    for any complete or perfect act
    of the virtue
    Memoria/Memory

    -accurate memory that is true


    to reality; an ability to learn from
    experience.
    Docilitas/Docility

    -an open-mindedness that


    recognizes variety and is able to
    seek and make use of the
    experience and authority of
    others.
    Intelligentia

    -The understanding of first principles


    Sollertia/Shrewdness

    -quick-wittedness or the ability to


    evaluate a situation quickly.
    Ratio/Reasoning

    -Discursive reasoning and the


    ability to research and compare
    alternatives
    Providentia/Foresight

    -the capacity to estimate


    whether particular actions
    can realize goals.
    Circumspection

    -the ability to take all


    relevant circumstances into
    account
    Caution

    -the ability to mitigate


    risk.
    Prudential Judgment
    Is one where the circumstances
    must be weighed to determine the
    correct action.
    Good Counsel (eubolia)
    Counsel is research into the
    various means to the end and the
    circumstances.
    Good Judgment (synesis and
    gnome)
    Judgment is an assent to good
    and suitable means.
    SYNESIS
    is good common sense in making
    judgments about what to do and what
    not to do in ordinary matters.
    GNOME
    Refers to the ability to discern and
    apply higher laws to matters that fall outside
    the scope of the more common or lower rules
    that typically guide human action.

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