BaggotPaddy Jim“When is Amniocentesis Morally Licit?” in The Linacre Quarterly, November 2004, 71/4, 355–357.
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PieperJosefThe Four Cardinal Virtues, (University of Notre Dame, Indiana 1966 [Eng. trans. of Traktat über die Klugheit by R & C Wilson]), p. 4
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Cf. PlatoPhaedrus, 254e
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AquinasThomasSumma Theologiae (S. Th.,), I–II, q. 57, art. 6; II–II, q. 47, art. 8. In explaining the command of the prudential process. Saint Thomas employs two terms, imperium (as the executive stage of the human act, cf. I—II, q. 17) and praeceptum
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S.Th., II–II, q. 51, art. 3: “Et ideo oportet praeter eubuliam esse aliam virtutem quae est bene judicativa. Et haec dicitur synesis.”
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S.Th., II–II, q. 51, art. 4: “Et secundum illa altiora principia exigitur altior virtus indicative, quae vocatur gnome, quae importat quandam perspicacitatem iudicii.”
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HippocratesOn Ancient Medicine, I. Great Books, [English trans, by Francis Adams], vol. 9, p. 1.
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S.Th., II–II, q. 51, art. 4: “El ideo oportet de huiusmodi iudicare secundum aliqua altiora principia quam sint regulae communes, secundum quas iudicat synesis. Et secundum illa altiora principia exigitur altior virtus judicativa, quae vocatur gnome, quae importat quandam perspicacitatem iudicii.”
