Imprudence VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 03/04/2010

Imprudence VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 03/04/2010 Prudence has nothing to do with timidity or fear. Much less is a prudent person identified with someone who is unusually uncertain, meek or ambivalent. The virtue to discern well and to thereafter accordingly act pursuant to the dictate of right reason in a concrete or practical issue — this is prudence. Briefly, prudence is right reason in action. It is prudence that intimately guides conscience in deciding what to do and what to avoid doing — not really because the former is allowed or the latter is forbidden. Instead, prudence is choosing better than simply good, preferring what is honorable than what is merely permissible. Imprudence then is the equivalent of indiscretion, tactlessness or insensibility “Who cares?” “So what?” “Never mind.”.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100304com6.html

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