Making Good Decisions: Two Giants on the Virtue of Prudence
Tue, Oct 20
|Stumberg Hall
oin us for a panel discussion--and an intellectual contest!--on Prudence. Dr. Erik Dempsey and Prof. J. Budziszewski will tell us something more about Aristotle's and Aquinas' definitions of Prudence, debating over how they differ and to what extent.
Time & Location
Oct 20, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Stumberg Hall
About The Event
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Following their respective compact seminars on prudence, offered to UT students and to several other friends of the Austin Institute during the past months, Professor J. Budziszewski and Dr. Erik Dempsey will help us answer these questions. They will discuss the philosophers' views and understandings of prudence, once more helping us to understand what it means to be a prudent citizen, and prudent human beings, in 2020.Aristotle claims that prudence is a practical rather than a theoretical virtue, and deliberative rather than intuitive. Aquinas follows Aristotle and claims it is practical wisdom. Both philosophers think that prudence is acquired by experience, and that it is among the most important virtues in life. It then sounds quite legitimate to ask, Do their definitions really differ?…
