Prudence: 2a2ae. 47-56, Vol. 36 Book

Editorial Notes     xii
Introduction     xiv
Nature of Prudence
Whether prudence is in the will or in the reason     5
If in the reason, whether in the practical reason or in the theoretic as well     9
Whether it can know individual cases     11
Whether it is a virtue     15
And a special virtue     17
Whether it appoints the end for the moral virtues     21
And fixes the just mean for them     25
Whether its proper act is reaching an effective decision     27
Whether solicitude or vigilance is part of prudence     29
Whether prudence extends to the government of the people     33
Whether prudence with regards to one's own personal good is specifically the same as that which reaches to the common good     35
Whether subjects, or rulers, only have prudence     39
Whether it may be found in the wicked     41
Whether in all upright people     45
Whether it is inborn with human nature     47
Whether it may be forgotten and so lost     49
Parts of Prudence
Article. Whether the apportionment into three is acceptable     53
Components of Prudence
Memory     61
Insight or intelligence     65
Teachableness     67
Acumen     69
Reasoned judgment     73
Foresight     75
Circumspection     77
Caution     79
Kinds of Prudence
Whether statesmanship is a kind of prudence     83
Whether there is a political prudence     87
And a prudence of domestic management     89
And of military affairs     91
Allies of Prudence
Whether well-advisedness be a virtue     95
And a special virtue distinct from prudence     97
Whether there be a virtue of sound practical judgment     101
And of the wit to deal with exceptional cases     103
Gift of Counsel
Whether counsel should be counted among the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost     106
Whether it answers to the virtue of prudence     111
Whether it remains in heaven     115
Whether the fifth beatitude, Blessed are the merciful, matches the gift of counsel     117
Imprudence
Whether imprudence be a sin     121
And a special sin     125
Concerning undue haste     129
And thoughtlessness     131
And inconstancy     133
Concerning the source of these vices     135
Negligence
Whether negligence be a special sin     139
The virtue to which it is opposed     141
Whether negligence be mortal sin     143
Sham Prudence
Whether prudence of the flesh be a sin     147
And a mortal sin     149
Whether cunning be a special sin     153
Concerning guile     155
Cheating     157
Solicitude about temporal things     159
About the future     161
The source of these vices     163
Commandments of Prudence
Those relating to prudence itself     169
Those relating to its opposite vices     171
Appendices
Prudence and Laws     174
Prudence and Casuistry     178
Prudence and Conscience     180
Prudence and Certainty     182
Glossary     185
Index     188