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MORAL VIRTUES
INTEGRAL PARTS OF PRUDENCE (KNOWING THE MEANS TO ATTAIN THE END)

  1. Memory (Memoria): the Virtue by Which One Remembers the Right Things Pertaining to the Action
    and its Circumstances
  2. Understanding (Intellectus): the Ability to Grasp Practical Principles and the Nature of Various
    Situations
  3. Docility (Docilitas): Ability to Be Lead and Take Counsel from Others
  4. Shrewdness (Solertia): Quickness in Arriving at the Means to the End
  5. Reason (Ratio): Ability to Reason about Practical Matters; the Ability to Apply Universal Practical
    Principles to Particular Situations
  6. Foresight (Providentia): Ability to See Future Outcomes of Actions Based upon past Experience
  7. Circumspection (Circumspectio): Virtue by Which One Keeps Track of One’s Circumstances
  8. 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

  1. Precipitation: the Vice in Which One Does Not Take Counsel (Results in Acting Too Quickly)
  2. Inconsideration: the Vice in Which One Does Not Judge Which Means Is the Best among the Various
    Means Arrived at During Counsel
  3. Inconstancy: a Vice in Which One Does Not Command or Do the Action Which Has Been Counseled
    and Judged as the Best
  4. Negligence: Failure to Take Counsel or a Failure to Do What One Should When He Ought
  5. 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
  6. Craftiness (Astutia): Industry in Not Using the Right or True Means to an End
  7. Guile (Dolus): the Habit of Deceit (Usually in Words)
  8. Fraud (Fraus): the Habit of Deceit (Usually in Deeds)
    (Credit to: Fr. Chad Ripperger)
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