to recognize the good and act in moral and just ways, that is when he or she has attained the virtue of prudence and has become a prudent human being. It has been necessary for me to use the words just and moral because one cannot talk about prudence without mentioning everything it deals with. Although justice is the next virtue in the order and is dependent on prudence, one must still use the concept of justice when explaining prudence because that is what prudence is, just actions. "...there is no sort of justice and fortitude which runs counter to the virtue of prudence; and that the unjust man has been imprudent before and is imprudent at the moment he is unjust." Here, Pieper makes it clear to us that an imprudent man will be unjust in his actions.
             To show how important prudence is to the Christian image of man, Pieper states the following: "Prudence is the cause of the other virtues' being virtues at all." Well, I have already explained that for a person to fulfill the Christian im
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