Treatise I: On Prudence

Utility. - Because the more practical questions of this treatise can also be weighed under various other heads, manuals of moral theology are accustomed scarcely to concede express mention to the cardinal virtue of prudence. Yet it is useful to possess a right and distinct notion of this virtue, and accurately to discern how it differs from human prudence, which, per se, is without merit. In these pages, insisting on the footsteps of St. Thomas, we shall attempt to furnish this.