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Meaning of "prudentialism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRUDENTIALISM

pruːˈdenʃəlɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRUDENTIALISM

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Prudentialism is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PRUDENTIALISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Prudentialism

Prudentialism is a moral principle based on precautionary principles that are acting to avoid a particular negative effect. For example, acting in self-defence or, indeed, pre-emptive attacks on "rogue" states. Prudentialism is also a philosophy of constitutional interpretation that considers laws and powers from a pragmatic viewpoint. According to government scholar John E. Finn, prudentialism "counsels judges to avoid setting broad rules for future cases and offers a particular understanding of the limited role courts should play in a constitutional democracy."...

Definition of prudentialism in the English dictionary

The definition of prudentialism in the dictionary is a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRUDENTIALISM

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRUDENTIALISM

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WORDS THAT END LIKE PRUDENTIALISM

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Synonyms and antonyms of prudentialism in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prudentialism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRUDENTIALISM»

Discover the use of prudentialism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prudentialism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Socratic Moral Psychology
2.1.2 Prudentialism it may at first seem that the Socratic view becomes more plausible once we remind ourselves that, as what we will be calling his “ prudentialism,” Socrates did not distinguish ethical good and evil from prudential interest.1 ...
Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith, 2010
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American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative ...
Prudential arguments seem less of an interpretive enterprise than strategies for avoiding a decision in politically sensitive cases or balancing interests in particularly complicated ones. Prudentialism is often identified with the work of Alexander ...
Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn, 2004
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Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution
Nevertheless, because the Constitution speaks in broad terms, many think that in order to apply the Constitution in a consistent and transparent manner, courts must create doctrines that govern future cases. Prudentialism is the fifth method.
David Andrew Schultz, 2009
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The Limits of Medical Paternalism
6. APPEALS. TO. RATIONALITY: THE. VARIETIES. OF. PRUDENTIALISM. The ' weaknesses' and 'vices' that human beings possess are sometimes looked upon neither with benevolent pity nor moral condemnation, but with intellectual ...
Heta Häyry, 2002
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Getting Over Equality: A Critical Diagnosis of Religious ...
PRUDENTIALISM. Thus far I have discussed two different general approaches to religious freedom controversies, but I have said little about what those approaches mean for particular controversies. Of course, if one favors the prudential ...
Steven D. Smith, 2001
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Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics
Pat O'Malley (1996) has dubbed this style of risk management the new prudentialism.7 It is a style in which insurance against the possibilities of job loss, old age, sickness, and so forth becomes primarily a matter of private responsibility.
Jonathan Xavier Inda, 2008
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Foucault And Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism ...
Within neo-liberalism (or more broadly, as Nikolas Rose would say, “advanced liberalism”), I have argued that actuarial techniques appear primarily in the specific form here described as prudentialism, and that as such they embody, and are ...
University of London Andrew Barry Goldsmith's College, Andrew Barry Goldsmith's College, University of London; Thomas Osborne Brunel University; Nikolas Rose Goldsmith's College, University of London., 2013
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The Greenhouse: A Welfare Assessment and Some Morals
Prudentialism: Motivational preferences always rely on and contain biologically fixed inclinations. But in addition to that most of our motivational preferences are cognitively formed, linking such inclinations with the subject's beliefs. The really ...
Christoph Lumer, 2002
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Politics, Values, and National Socialism
comes very close to prudentialism. But, on the one hand, it will simplify that many- faced doctrine and render it more consistent, doing away with the built-in residuum of traditional valuations and virtue-categories, on the other hand, as a ...
Aurel Kolnai, Graham McAleer, 2013
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Science, Pseudo-science, and Society
This latter was the official and conservative view at the time, the view preached from Restoration pulpits not to be upset until the events of I688-89, whereas Stubbe's prudentialism would have sounded suspiciously Hobbesian to a sensitive ...
Marsha Hanen, Margaret Osler, Robert Weyant, 1980

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRUDENTIALISM»

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In a Risk Society, Is Consumption Our Only Tool to Influence Our …
... risk and security management are associated with the new consumer-welfare regime, where an entrepreneurial self invests in herself - a form of prudentialism ... «Truth-Out, Jul 12»
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Eisenhower's farewell address and the demise of prudentialism
John Kennedy's speech three days later is a rejection of prudentialism. His rhetoric about paying any price and bearing any burden is the antithesis of prudence. «Power Line, Jan 11»
REFERENCE
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