Prudence directs theoretical activity (whose end is truth) toward the investigation of certain truths; however, prudence cannot tell theory what to find.
Merchants pragmatically expressed their indignation at usurers and bankrupts as violators of the charity, moderation, and prudence they themselves claimed to display.
The preoccupations of this administrative elite prove remarkably similar to the topics of deliberative oratory : the competing claims of prudence, honour, and necessity.
Since prudence determines what we should and should not do, its exercise is the focal point of ethics.
In contrast, prudence is ' dictative ' because it dictates that an act should be done.
So the representatives must be told explicitly that they represent temporal aspects of a continuing natural person who is in the circumstances of prudence.
As these are precisely the scenarios against which enrollees participate in health insurance, this is simple prudence.
The last two virtues that the book ascribes to the bourgeoisie and argues to be central for commerce are prudence and justice.
