6: Prudence

Question 1

It is also called the mother of all the virtues.

Answer 1

Prudence

Question 2

is the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason and it is one of the four Cardinal virtues.

Answer 2

Prudence

Question 3

Prudence begins with an understanding of the first principles of practical reason, which St. Thomas Aquinas calls

Answer 3

synderesis

Question 4

the object of these inclinations are

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goods

Question 5

since these goods are not outside the human person, but are aspects of the human person, they are called

Answer 5

human goods

Question 6

It is basically good to be as a rational animal, created in the image and likeness of God, in the image of knowledge and love

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Life

Question 7

a life having the potential of self- expansion through knowledge and through love.

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“cognitive” life

Question 8

“All men by nature desire to know”. Knowing is a mode of existing.

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Aristotle, Metaphysics

Question 9

a kind of self-expansion.

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Knowledge

Question 10

This human person, who is fundamentally, intelligibly, and intrinsically good, desires to know ____ for its own sake.

Answer 10

truth

Question 11

Man has, at the same time, a natural inclination to behold the _________, to see it, to intuit it, to contemplate it.

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beautiful

Question 12

The person who plays has the cognitive power of complete self-reflection, and so he contemplates the marvel of his own skills and delights in the awareness of their gradual perfection.

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Leisure, Play, Art

Question 13

The human person inclines to harmony between himself and others.

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Sociability

Question 14

the highest kind of friendship he seeks is

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benevolent friendship

Question 15

Man aspires after what is higher than himself because he is aware of a desire in him for perfect happiness.

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Religion

Question 16

Man is inclined to ________, to give himself completely to another, to belong to another exclusively in one flesh union.

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Marriage

Question 17

He is inclined to bring about a more intense unity within himself, namely harmony between his actions and his character as well as his will and his passions.

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Integrity

Question 18

accurate memory that is true to reality; an ability to learn from experience.

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Memoria/Memory

Question 19

an open-mindedness that recognizes variety and is able to seek and make use of the experience and authority of others.

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Docilitas/Docility

Question 20

The understanding of first principles.

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Intelligentia

Question 21

quick-wittedness or the ability to evaluate a situation quickly.

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Sollertia/Shrewdness

Question 22

Discursive reasoning and the ability to research and compare alternatives

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Ratio/Reasoning

Question 23

the capacity to estimate whether particular actions can realize goals

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Providentia/Foresight

Question 24

the ability to take all relevant circumstances into account.

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Circumspection

Question 25

the ability to mitigate risk

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Caution

Question 26

is one where the circumstances must be weighed to determine the correct action.

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prudential judgment

Question 27

A person not entirely pure of heart, that is, whose charity is very defective, will have more options before him, poorer options that nevertheless have some appeal.

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Good Counsel (eubolia)

Question 28

is an assent to good and suitable means.

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Judgment

Question 29

good common sense in making judgments about what to do and what not to do in ordinary matters

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Synesis

Question 30

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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Gnome