What Is Prudence, and How Can I Get It?
Tue, Sep 29
|Stumberg Hall
Join Professor J. Budziszewski in a seminar series on prudence. Prudence is practical wisdom. It isn’t the same as being smart–you could be smart and not have it. Our readings will be drawn from the "Summa" of St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the two or three wisest teachers about the subject in history.
Time & Location
Sep 29, 2020, 7:00 PM – Oct 13, 2020, 8:30 PM
Stumberg Hall, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA
About The Event
Prudence is practical wisdom. It isn’t the same as being smart – you could be smart and not have it. So what is it? What is its “anatomy?” How do we acquire it? How is it related to the other virtues? And how is it related to happiness? Our readings will be drawn from the of St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the two or three wisest teachers about the subject in history.Summa
Week 1:The anatomy of the virtues in general, and of prudence in particular.
Week 2:How the virtues in general are acquired; how prudence is acquired; the interdependence of the virtues, and how their interdependence affects their acquisition.
Week 3:“Ordinary” and ‘infused” prudence; prudence and the other virtues in relation to “imperfect” and “perfect” happiness.
About our scholar:
J. Budziszewski
