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MORAL VIRTUES
INTEGRAL PARTS OF PRUDENCE (KNOWING THE MEANS TO ATTAIN THE END)
- Memory (Memoria): the Virtue by Which One Remembers the Right Things Pertaining to the Action
and its Circumstances - Understanding (Intellectus): the Ability to Grasp Practical Principles and the Nature of Various
Situations - Docility (Docilitas): Ability to Be Lead and Take Counsel from Others
- Shrewdness (Solertia): Quickness in Arriving at the Means to the End
- Reason (Ratio): Ability to Reason about Practical Matters; the Ability to Apply Universal Practical
Principles to Particular Situations - Foresight (Providentia): Ability to See Future Outcomes of Actions Based upon past Experience
- Circumspection (Circumspectio): Virtue by Which One Keeps Track of One’s Circumstances
- Caution (Cautio): Application of Knowledge of the past to Action in Order to Avoid Impediments and Evils
(Credit to: Fr. Chad Ripperger)
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Vices Contrary to Prudence
- Precipitation: the Vice in Which One Does Not Take Counsel (Results in Acting Too Quickly)
- Inconsideration: the Vice in Which One Does Not Judge Which Means Is the Best among the Various
Means Arrived at During Counsel - Inconstancy: a Vice in Which One Does Not Command or Do the Action Which Has Been Counseled
and Judged as the Best - Negligence: Failure to Take Counsel or a Failure to Do What One Should When He Ought
- Carnal Prudence: the Vice in Which One Applies One’s Reason to Arrive at Means to Attain Created
Goods Which Are Seen as One’s Final End - Craftiness (Astutia): Industry in Not Using the Right or True Means to an End
- Guile (Dolus): the Habit of Deceit (Usually in Words)
- Fraud (Fraus): the Habit of Deceit (Usually in Deeds)
(Credit to: Fr. Chad Ripperger)
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The virtues and the vices opposed