IS PRUDENCE A BRIDGE BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE AND PERSONALITY?

• Authors: Ruisel I.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Attention is devoted to the prudence as a 'team of virtues'. The stress is laid on eight forms of prudence as long-term memory, ability to the adequately understand existing relationships, openness to advice of the others, brightness, reasonableness, foresight, circumspection, cautiousness. The prudence is oriented to a practical achievement of the personal goals, plans and designs. However, we assume an ability to choose appropriate means to attain the goals. The prudence represents one of the preconditions of a mature and cultivated personality, permitting one to master a suitable concept of life style and primarily to identify means leading to this goal. The prudence asserts itself by refusing the self-regulatory failings and the unjustified temptations. These reflections also imply that the concept prudence bridges over the historically preserved though methodologically unjustified division between a subject's behavior and his personality.

Keywords

EN

BEHAVIOUR; INTELLIGENCE; PERSONALITY; PRUDENCE

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 197-205
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ruisel I.

• I. Ruisel, Ustav experimentalnej psychologie SAV, Dubravska cesta 9, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06SKAAAA01683641