I like to think of Aristotle's `Prudence` and `Justice` as being in potential tension: prudence is knowing what's best for oneself, while justice is knowing wha

I like to think of Aristotle's `Prudence` and `Justice` as being in potential tension: prudence is knowing what's best for oneself, while justice is knowing what's best for everyone. (everyone of the ingroup, for the more parochial, all creatures great and small, for the more Jain) Exercise: what is the potential tension between `Fortitude` and `Temperance`? Lagniappe: (Emperor's Corollary to Pournelle's Iron Law) > Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. —MAAAGS