Prudence

Question 1

What faculty is prudence in?

Answer 1

cognitive (reason)

Question 2

Does P belong to practical reason (PR) and speculative reason (SR) or just one?

Answer 2

PR

Question 3

Why doesn’t P belong to SR?

Answer 3

P is application of right reason in matters of counsel w/ no fixed way of obtaining end. SR deals w/ fixed ways.

Question 4

How does P deal w/ singulars?

Answer 4

through knowledge of universals P applies to singulars

Question 5

In what sense does P reside?

Answer 5

internal sense where it is perfected by memory and experience, but not as principle subject. Application of reason extends to exterior.

Question 6

What can be said regarding cognisance of singulars and P?

Answer 6

P applied when man knows ‘what’ is to be applied and ‘object’applied to

Question 7

How is P a virtue?

Answer 7

intellectually & morally (Will-virtue)

Question 8

Does P work in all virtue?

Answer 8

yes

Question 9

How does P operate?

Answer 9

things done as object of right reason (considered as true)

Question 10

How does P differ from moral virtue?

Answer 10

MV in will, P in intellect

Question 11

Does P direct end of MVs?

Answer 11

No. Synderesis does.

Question 12

How does P assist moral virtues?

Answer 12

Supplies means to end, does not appoint end OR Shows MVs right way to do action, not what to do.

Question 13

Does command (Cmnd) belong to prudence?

Answer 13

yes so one can take good counsel

Question 14

What is P directed to common good (CG)?

Answer 14

political prudence

Question 15

What is political prudence?

Answer 15

P directed to common good

Question 16

What reason does STA give for saying that P does should extend to common good?

Answer 16

would be opposed to charity

Question 17

How are habits different?

Answer 17

Habits differ by their relation to end

Question 18

Is P a virtue of Subject (Suj)?

Answer 18

strictly understood no

Question 19

What is qualification of P in Suj?

Answer 19

he has degree of P for he is a rational animal

Question 20

How is P exercised in slave, subject and ruler?

Answer 20

P commands others but also self to command lower powers

Question 21

What are the two kinds of prudence?

Answer 21

legilsative (Rlrs), political (individal actions)

Question 22

Is P in sinners?

Answer 22

not absolutely

Question 23

How is faith more excellent than P?

Answer 23

faith provides right appetite

Question 24

How is P more excellent than Faith?

Answer 24

P more opposed to sin

Question 25

What does STA say regarding P, sinners and good counsel?

Answer 25

Sinner possess P for good counsel but not pertaining to last end only in lighter matters. They possess cleverness and cunning directed to evil but this is false P

Question 26

What is three-fold P?

Answer 26

THis is in article 13 Body

Question 27

Is P in all who have grace?

Answer 27

Yes (things pertaining to salvation) and No (provision for self and others)

Question 28

Why P not in young?

Answer 28

acquisition demands experience and time

Question 29

How is P in young?

Answer 29

exists as habit but not in act, is in act for salvation

Question 30

How is P in old?

Answer 30

natural disposition calms them and because of experience

Question 31

How is P in us in general?

Answer 31

teaching and experience

Question 32

How is P not in us as part of our nature?

Answer 32

P is concerned w/ means not ends

Question 33

Does experience come from memory alone?

Answer 33

No. If so P could be forgotten. Memory and commanding aright are part of P

Question 34

How does Knowledge of Universals (KoU) relate to P?

Answer 34

P applies KoU to action and though one forgets KoU it doesn’t destroy P but hinders

Question 35

What is the principle act of P?

Answer 35

command