Exempel på prudence

• She edits a personal-finance magazine that preaches fiscal prudence.

• Prudence demands preserving as much of forest systems as possible.

• Casinos stay in business because few of the people who visit them have the prudence to walk out while they're ahead.

• 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.

• Handled with prudence, the press can be a prime source not only for political history but for all manner of social history as well.

• I think this is a good starting point for an acceptable theory of prudence.

• There is a strong etymological connection between prudence and foresight.

• This slicing is done before we have determined what prudence requires.

• These situations call for prudence in the use of humanitarian interventions.

• Prudence may direct technique and theory by specifying the realm of their activity + what should be made, what questions investigated.

• Indeed, as she mentioned earlier, prudence is about right reasoning, in order to apply good means to good ends, not necessarily self-serving ends.