[Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain]@TWC D-Link bookMoral Science; A Compendium of Ethics PART II 98/699
We mean here by sensible Perception, not what is peculiar to any of the five senses, but what is common to them all--whereby we perceive that the triangle before us is a geometrical ultimatum, and that it is the final subject of application for all the properties previously demonstrated to belong to triangles generally.
The mind will stop here in the downward march towards practical application, as it stopped at first principles in the upward march.
Prudence becomes, however, confounded with sensible perception, when we reach this stage.
[The statement here given involves Aristotle's distinction of the proper and the common Sensibles; a shadowing out of the muscular element in sensation] (VIII.). Good counsel [Greek: euboulia] is distinguished from various other qualities.
It is, in substance, choosing right means to a good end; the end being determined by the great faculty--Prudence or Judiciousness (IX.).
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