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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"prudence"”.
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Prudence and the Modern Sister
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Prudence and providence in Kant
… undertakes a re-examination of the concepts of prudence (or, equivalently, practical judgment) and providence (or, equivalently, the postulate of God’s existence) in Kant’s ethics, political philosophy, and moral theology. Kant famously breaks with the eudaimonistic tradition by rejecting the …
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Prudence in Aristotle and ST. Thomas Aquinas
For Aristotle, prudence or practical wisdom is a virtue of thought that is practical rather than theoretical and deliberative rather than intuitive. It is the intellectual virtue that perfects reasoning in regard to decision making in the realm of human action. To have this virtue is to be good at …
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"The Concept of Prudence in ""don Quixote"""
… of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza with respect to prudence. Not much has been written on this subject by critics.
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Justice, prudence, and foreign relations in Aristotle's political thought.
… that for Aristotle the practice of justice and prudence occurs only in relation to the common good of particular and separate political communities. Thus, the possibility of human happiness, understood to be the life of virtue, depends on the existence of separate and free political communities. …
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"As Mind to the Body": Prudence and Artificial Memory in the Illustrations and Commentary of George Sandys' Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished (1632)
… appropriateness for the cultivation of prudence, or practical wisdom. It reveals that the lessons in practical wisdom encoded in the work through the techniques of artificial memory were particularly aimed at political issues and the concerns of rulers. From the work's preoccupation with …
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Prudence and decorum and the invention of american democracy: an examination of the ratification debates for the federal constitution in 1787-88
… examine the use of the rhetorical strategies of prudence and decorum as they are employed within the debates in Massachusetts, Virginia and New York. </p> <p>In Massachusetts, classical notions of representation are challenged by the use of binding instructions given to delegates sent to the …
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Self-interest, national interest and the political leader's responsibility
… the supreme virtue of a political leader is prudence. Diplomatic prudence addresses political complexity, because it is a thoughtful balance of the moral and strategic goals of the statesman. The author examines the notion of prudence and its application to international relations.
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Estimating the risks in defined benefit pension funds under the constraints of PF117
… to be on a best-estimate basis. Allowance for prudence was to be made through explicit contingency reserves, in order to increase reporting transparency. These reserves for prudence, however, were not permitted to put the fund into deficit (the no-deficit clause). Analysis is conducted to …
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Representations of Women in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Man of Law’s Tale” and “Tale of Melibee”
… protagonist from “The Man of Law's Tale,” and Prudence, from “The Tale of Melibee.” Although Custance and Prudence adhere to medieval cultural ideals of femininity, it further notes their central position in the narratives discussed, and presents an argument for the active and heroic nature of …
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Liberal Education and the Best Regime: Aristotle’s Freedom of the Soul
… culminating in the attainment of the virtue of prudence such that the student will be liberated both from excessive pursuit of external goods and the passions of the body. Once free, this student will be able to solely pursue the intellectual virtue of wisdom and find happiness in the …
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an Architecture Manufactum
… world heighten our faculty for exactitude, the prudence remains as to whether and when it is appropriate to do so.
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Consumption heterogeneity in macroeconomics and public finance
… to transitory changes in income, the relative prudence is higher.
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