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==Origin==

==Origin==

[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] prudentia, alteration of providentia — more at [[providence]] or Old French prudence (13th century), from [[Latin]] prudentia ([[foresight]], sagacity), a contraction of providentia, foresight.

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] prudentia, alteration of providentia — more at [[providence]] or Old French prudence (13th century), from [[Latin]] prudentia ([[foresight]], sagacity), a contraction of providentia, foresight.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

Although prudence would be applied to any such [[judgment]], the more [[difficult]] tasks, which distinguish a [[person]] as prudent, are those in which various goods have to be weighed against each other, as when a [[person]] is determining what would be best to give [[charitable]] donations, or how to [[punish]] a child so as to prevent repeating an offense.

Although prudence would be applied to any such [[judgment]], the more [[difficult]] tasks, which distinguish a [[person]] as prudent, are those in which various goods have to be weighed against each other, as when a [[person]] is determining what would be best to give [[charitable]] donations, or how to [[punish]] a child so as to prevent repeating an offense.

In [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#1500-present.09THE_MODERN_ENGLISH_PERIOD modern English], however, the [[word]] has become increasingly synonymous with cautiousness. In this sense, prudence names a reluctance to take [[risks]], which remains a [[virtue]] with respect to unnecessary risks, but when unreasonably extended (i.e. over-cautiousness), can become the vice of cowardice.

In [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#1500-present.09THE_MODERN_ENGLISH_PERIOD modern English], however, the [[word]] has become increasingly synonymous with cautiousness. In this sense, prudence names a reluctance to take [[risks]], which remains a [[virtue]] with respect to unnecessary risks, but when unreasonably extended (i.e. over-cautiousness), can become the vice of cowardice.

In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics Nicomachean Ethics], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle] gives a lengthy account of the [[virtue]] phronesis ([[Greek]]: ϕρονησιϛ), which has [[traditionally]] been [[translated]] as "prudence", although this has become increasingly problematic as the [[word]] has fallen out of common usage. More recently ϕρονησιϛ has been [[translated]] by such terms as "[[practical]] [[wisdom]]", "[[practical]] [[judgment]]," or "[[rational]] [[choice]]." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence]

In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics Nicomachean Ethics], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle Aristotle] gives a lengthy account of the [[virtue]] phronesis ([[Greek]]: ϕρονησιϛ), which has [[traditionally]] been [[translated]] as "prudence", although this has become increasingly problematic as the [[word]] has fallen out of common usage. More recently ϕρονησιϛ has been [[translated]] by such terms as "[[practical]] [[wisdom]]", "[[practical]] [[judgment]]," or "[[rational]] [[choice]]." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence]

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