Summa TheologiaePart II-II — Second Part of the Second Part Question 047 — Question 47 — Prudence, Considered in Itself Prooemium Article 1 — Whether prudence is in the cognitive or in the appetitive faculty? Article 2 — Whether prudence belongs to the practical reason alone or also to the speculative reason? Article 3 — Whether prudence takes cognizance of singulars? Article 4 — Whether prudence is a virtue? Article 5 — Whether prudence is a special virtue? Article 6 — Whether prudence appoints the end to moral virtues? Article 7 — Whether it belongs to prudence to find the mean in moral virtues? Article 8 — Whether command is the chief act of prudence? Article 9 — Whether solicitude belongs to prudence? Article 10 — Whether prudence extends to the governing of many? Article 11 — Whether prudence about one’s own good is specifically the same as that which extends to the common good? Article 12 — Whether prudence is in subjects, or only in their rulers? Article 13 — Whether prudence can be in sinners? Article 14 — Whether prudence is in all who have grace? Article 15 — Whether prudence is in us by nature? Article 16 — Whether prudence can be lost through forgetfulness?
