Prudence: Classical Virtue, Postmodern Practice

Index

I N D E X abolitionists, 168, 169, 170–73, 174, 176–77, 185 n. 71 absolute truth, 100 Acilius, Lucius, 40 Adams, John, 94 n. 22, 175, 209 Adams, Samuel, 180 n. 22 Adams, Scott, 238 Addison, Joseph, 116 aesthetics, 249, 276, 278 After Virtue (MacIntyre), 265, 274 Alarm, The; or, an Address to the People of Pennsylvania on the Late Resolve of Congress (pamphlet), 153–54, 156 algorithmics, 260 American Anti-Slavery Society, 170, 171–73 American Revolution audacity and accommodation in, 146, 149–57 Burke on, 129, 131, 133 Declaration of Independence, 100, 156 and slavery debate, 168–69, 170 American Treason Act, 133, 134, 135 Annales (Ennius), 37–39 Annas, Julia, 319 n. 48 Anthony, Susan B., 214 “Antidote to Toryism, An” (Whitaker), 154–55 anti-federalists, 157, 158–59, 165, 183 n. 53 appearances acting from necessity while seeming to act freely, 82–83, 84 instability as characteristic of, 87–88 Machiavellian actor operating in realm of, 89 as middle ground between possible and impossible, 85 neopagan morality and, 95 n. 27 notional options as apparent, 81 propriety identified with, 190 appropriateness. See also propriety (decorum) foresight and, 83 Lyotard and, 274, 280 and Paine’s Common Sense, 155 and performative tradition of prudence, 301 and real versus notional possibilities, 71, 72 Aquinas, St. Thomas, viii–ix, 36, 294 Arendt, Hannah, 100, 120, 233, 242, 248, 249 Aristotle account of prudence as canonical, viii, 6–7, 35–36 calculative tradition of prudence and, viii, 3, 299–300 in Cicero’s De oratore, 43 on four types of intelligence, 5 on friendship, 302, 319 n. 45 on the good, 271 Kant and, 101 on knowing agent required for prudence, 264 Lyotard and, 23, 266, 268, 269, 270, 271, 274, 275, 276, 278 making and doing distinguished by, 317 n. 24 on mutual advantage, 29 n. 27 Nicomachean Ethics, viii, 39, 61, 259 ontology of the contingent of, 178 n. 3, 262–63, 268, 269, 270, 274 on Pericles, 27 n. 17 on persuasion, 277 as pluralist, 270 on politics as virtuous practice, 272 on propriety and locale, 247 prudence as defined by, 261–62, 299 and prudence as a practice, 294 325 Aristotle (continued) Rhetoric, viii, 26 n. 9, 27 n. 14, 92 n. 11, 178 n. 3, 256 n. 65, 277, 315 n. 10, 316 n. 18 rhetoric as defined by, 293, 316 n. 18 rhetoric and prudence distinguished by, 75 Adam Smith compared with, 121 n. 16 on two approaches to prudence, 27 n. 16 as uniting prudentia and eloquentia for Cicero, 51 on virtue as not teachable, 70 on the young as unable to be prudent, 264 Arms, Consider, 165 Articles of Confederation, 157 Aubenque, Pierre, 262, 264 audience feminized audience, 219–20 Jacksonian audience, 192–93, 206 performative approach to prudence and, 305–12 Augustine, St., 294 Augustus Caesar, 60 Austin, James, 169 avant-garde prudence, 292 Bacon, Francis, 95 n. 27, 99, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 195, 196 Balaban, Oded, 93 n. 14 Baym, Nina, 205 Beard, Mary, 63 n. 40 Beer, Samuel, 157 Beiner, Ronald, 290, 292 Benhabib, Seyla, 261 Benjamin, Walter, 285 n. 37 Berlin, Isaiah, 67, 69–70, 72, 73, 85, 95 nn. 28, 29, 299 Bernstein, Richard, 266 Berry, Wendell, 233, 240, 244, 251, 316 n. 19 Bill, James A., 27 n. 15 Birney, James, 176–77 Bourdieu, Pierre, 31 n. 43 bourgeois prudence, 291 Bricker, Philip, 179 n. 6 Brody, Miriam, 193, 196–97 Browne, Stephen, 22 Brownstein, Oscar L., 25 n. 5, 26 n. 7 Brutus (Cicero), 58–60 Bunker Hill celebrations of 1825, 198–99 Burke, Edmund, 127–44. See also Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol coarse texture of political thought of, 22, 131–32, 143 and conservatism, 130 defensive quality of works of, 129 excesses of, 127 on historical knowledge, 142 on imperial government, 137 on the philosopher in action, 129–30 on political parties, 139–41 as politician, 133 Speech on American Taxation, 133 Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, 133 Speech to the Electors of Bristol, 129 Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents, 129, 140 on timely action, 141–43 on trust in constitutional government, 138 union of literary imagination and practical politics in, 130–31 on visionary schemes, 142 Burke, Kenneth, 95 n. 28, 179 n. 5, 192, 317 n. 27 Bush, George H. W., 14 Butler, Judith, 101 Butler, Pierce, 164 Caesar, Julius, 42, 43, 58–59, 60 calculative prudence, viii, 3, 277...