Sentence examples for rational prudence from inspiring English sources
The American Burke is a model of rational prudence; the Indian Burke one of imperial responsibility and sympathy.
An individual's level of well-being registers how well her life is going as it would be assessed from the standpoint of rational prudence.
Rational prudence, we think, does not dictate that Crusoe be conservative in his choices by giving extra weight to the outcome in which he suffers low lifetime well-being.
We show a new aggregation rule based on the composite value function that is able to represent asymmetric attitude on extreme events (optimism with respect to windfall gains and pessimism with respect to catastrophic events) and a rational prudence on ordinary events.
Christian Thomasius, a student of Pufendorf and contemporary of Locke, may be seen as a precursor of the utilitarian approach to political legitimacy, as he rejected voluntarism and endorsed the idea that political legitimacy depends on principles of rational prudence instead (Schneewind 1998: 160; Barnard 2001: 66).
This awkward phrase is meant to distinguish one's life going well for oneself, as one would wish one's life to go from the standpoint of rational prudence, and its going well by way of producing good that enters the lives of other people or animals or fulfills some impersonal good cause.
Even as a child, William Michael was in many ways a contrast to his more flamboyant brother in his calm and rational outlook, financial prudence, and lack of egotism, for example.
The decision-maker adopts entropy maximization as a measure of risk diversification and a rational form of prudence for valuing uncertain outcomes.
It is far removed from "prudence" in the sense of "rational self-interest", for by prudentia one is actively aware that self-interest is self-stunting or indeed self-destructive unless one transcends it by one's dispositions and acts of justice and friendship or love.
The rational decision is to perform SRM research, unless (i) discounting is hyperbolic and (ii) the absolute prudence of expected climate damage is smaller than absolute risk aversion.
