On Being Human. 4. Some Things Are Best Ignored. - Audio

Making the best possible choices and learning what to ignore and what to pay attention to is a subject of considerable importance today where what is fake and what is real are ever before us. The Writers of the Book of Proverbs spend time on the subject of "prudence" - a word that is uncommon today but which Aristotle saw as "right reason applied to practice" and which the church has historically seen as a cardinal virtue - a virtue that can be learned.