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as Johnson clearly states in The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language (1747): when citing from his authorities, he will select "such sentences, as, besides their immediate use, may give pleasure or instruction by conveying some elegance of language, or some precept of prudence, or ...
As Flyvbjerg (2001; see also Flyvbjerg et al., 2012) has argued, a full understanding of phronesis extends beyond mere "prudence" and must be considered in terms of actors' relationships to power structures, including access to resources and influence, and the hegemonic discourses that support ...
Machiavelli offers an illness metaphor that is not so much about society as about statecraft (conceived as a therapeutic art):as prudence is needed to control serious diseases,so foresight is needed to control social crises. It is a metaphor about foresight,and a call to foresight. In ...
” but, “Nature is actively noble and synonymous with God’s plan, so we should live in harmony with it”—hence, for example, we see Seneca going to great lengths struggling to try to prove that men should live in harmony with their natures (marked by wisdom, reason, prudence, etc....
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, Even as they
peace, and non-violence tap into the spiritual domain often overlooked in teaching and learning. What is essential is to focus on what we can change and how we can each make a difference in our small corners of the world. Prudence can make small differences adding up to larger differences....
her being the weaker vessel; weak vessels must be gently handled; the infirmities of children bespeak their pardon when they offend; and those members of the body which we think less honourable, on them we bestow more abundant honour, 1 Corinthians 12:23. It is a part of that prudence ...
Note again the word "thrift," which the Norton editor glosses as here meaning simply "prosperity." ** * * Another way to tell that a virtue is "minor" is that it can be described as a combination of the major Seven. The seven of prudence, temperance, justice, courage, faith, hope,...
This is why design with heritage lacks grandeur of gestures, proceeds with modesty and prudence, thus avoiding both the overexploitation of the given and the embedded obsolescence of the new, typical of modern commodities (take, make, waste). Designing with heritage and its engineer- ing of ...