Prudence

It was not until I was in tenth grade that I was exposed to the Rwandan Genocide. This event happened only a year before I was born, yet I had never heard of it. It was only in an integrated English and History class that the tragic events of 1994 became known to me. Two other classmates and I were given the task of researching, gathering the facts, and then teaching our fellow students about the atrocities that took the small country of Rwanda by storm. While other groups were learning and…

right and the government has a duty to help. Another argument in favor for health-care as a right is recognizing health-care as a human right that we get simply for being a human and the government owes us this right. Next we go into arguments of prudence where we acknowledge the fact that without health-care we would be without labor force and national defense. Last but not least principles of justice and autonomy really drive home the argument of health-care as a right. Justice stating that…

Communicators should also indicate when they do not understand and should ask for clarification. The clarity clause prevents misunderstanding and makes sure that everything with in communication is understood. The fifth clause is the prudence clause. The prudence clause shows that words have actions just like actions. Thinking about the consequences of what you say write or show is very important to communication. This clause also has to deal with the careless handling of information that…

that good. Vanier’s life was turned around when he visited a small chaplain for the handicapped. This is where he developed the virtue of prudence. Prudence is the ability to know and judge when one should speak up or remain silent. It is about using your morality in order to make good choices in life, rather than being impulsive. Vanier demonstrated prudence when he realized that he truly lives a blessed life that others can only imagine. When he visited different asylums, hospitals and…

aids Odysseus in his fight in Ithaca and in the discus in Phaeacia enabling him to finally reach home after two decades. Proverbs and the Odyssey agree in many parts about the vision of happiness and the good life, especially in the virtues of prudence and hospitality. They differ in regards to women; this may be explained by the fact that Proverbs did not know immortal goddesses to exist. This difference is reflected in the lives of an Old Testament Jew to a…

Text Review: The Wisdom Literature In “The Wisdom Literature” Kathleen O’ Connor explores the six wisdom books of the Old Testament: Proverbs, Job, Qoheleth, the Song of Songs, Sirach and the Wisdom of Solomon. Although some of these might seem familiar, others might feel foreign, and this is because they are books typically found in different versions of the bible. Through her volume, she breaks down the spiritualties, implicit or explicit, of the wisdom books of the Old Testament. She also…

In his satirical essay “A Modest Proposal” Jonathan Swift uses cannibalism as a means to mock the English government. As a whole, his essay is shocking and grotesque at first, but it is also important to the direct critique of those who are in power. When Swift wrote this essay, the population of Ireland was suffering from the effects of British Colonization. Those who were in power neglected to help the disempowered, which included the vast majority of Ireland population (Professor Makdisi).…

Throughout history, great leaders and figures influenced their respective lands greatly, fitting them into their own mold. These people had a set vision on what they wanted their land to be like, and some of these people, even wrote their ideas down. Three of these individuals are Baldassare Castiglione, an Italian diplomat, Niccolò Machiavelli also an Italian diplomat, and George Washington, the first president of the United States. They wrote The Courtier, The Prince, and Rules of Civility &…

then follows that contemplation is an activity of a distinctly inward quality, and so it may be said that in relation to the life of practical activity, it is an inactive life. The intellectual virtue associated with the life of contemplation is not prudence, as it was associated with the life of practical virtue, but is the virtue of wisdom (VI.7.5-6). The virtue of wisdom is described by Aristotle as being the most supreme of the intellectual virtues, for it is the most complete, and the one…

Dan Dougherty Hist 489 Leonard 12/12/14 Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life is the product of a meticulously researched effort by Nicholas Phillipson to chronicle the entirety of Adam Smith’s life outside of just what information scholars have been able to glean from Smith’s few academic writings. Phillipson reconstructs Smith’s intellectual ancestry and explains what influenced Smith, and what Smith in turn gave to the rapidly changing philosophical culture of…