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Christine L. Oravec
Prudence, 04/2003Book Chapter
As evidenced throughout this volume, the concept of prudence is experiencing an enthusiastic revival. After many years of neglect and distortion, the term is recovering some of its more useful and relevant connotations through the work of postmodern scholars. These connotations—of reasonableness, civic virtue, and practicality—were originally bestowed upon prudence by classical sources to describe a certain excellence of personal character.¹ In a similar vein, the notion of the decorous or proper (Gr. to prepon) has been receiving attention in part because of its long-term and still continuing dialog with prudence. Today, the word “propriety” has come to
