Prudence

Prudence
Author: Robert Hariman
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780271046662

This volume brings together scholars in classics, political philosophy, and rhetoric to analyze prudence as a distinctive and vital form of political intelligence. Through case studies from each of the major periods in the history of prudence, the authors identify neglected resources for political judgement in today's conditions of pluralism and interdependency. Three assumptions inform these essays: the many dimensions of prudence cannot be adequately represented in the lexicon of any single discipline; the Aristotelian focus on prudence as rational calculation needs to be balanced by the Ciceronian emphasis on prudence as discursive performance embedded in familiar social practices; and understanding prudence requires attention to how it operates thorough the communicative media and public discourses that constitute the political community.

Human Prudence

Human Prudence
Author: William De Britaine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1717
Genre: Conduct of life
ISBN:

Virtue's Splendor

Virtue's Splendor
Author: Thomas S. Hibbs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

With few exceptions, however, contemporary discussions of Aquinas ignore the complex and nuanced relationships among these different sorts of intellectual virtue; particularly striking is the general neglect of the speculative virtues and the role of contemplation in the good life.

Prudence and Pressure

Prudence and Pressure
Author: Noriko O. Tsuya
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2010-02-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262013525

Unlike previous studies, in which Asia is measured by European standards, Prudence and Pressure develops a Eurasian perspective.

Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality

Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality
Author: Marcus Arvan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2020-01-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000751511

Philosophers across many traditions have long theorized about the relationship between prudence and morality. Few clear answers have emerged, however, in large part because of the inherently speculative nature of traditional philosophical methods. This book aims to forge a bold new path forward, outlining a theory of prudence and morality that unifies a wide variety of findings in neuroscience with philosophically sophisticated normative theorizing. The author summarizes the emerging behavioral neuroscience of prudence and morality, showing how human moral and prudential cognition and motivation are known to involve over a dozen brain regions and capacities. He then outlines a detailed philosophical theory of prudence and morality based on neuroscience and lived human experience. The result demonstrates how this theory coheres with and explains the behavioral neuroscience, showing how each brain region and capacity interact to give rise to prudential and moral behavior. Neurofunctional Prudence and Morality: A Philosophical Theory will be of interest to philosophers and psychologists working in moral psychology, neuroethics, and decision theory. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Prudence

Prudence
Author: Thomas Gilby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2006-10-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0521029449

Paperback reissue of one volume of the English Dominicans' Latin/English edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.