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Edgar Enrique Blanco Carrero
El presente artículo tiene por objetivo examinar sucintamente cómo cambió el concepto de prudencia desde su aparición en la obra aristotélica hasta el siglo XVII, para responder a la interrogante sobre cómo en circunstancias de cambio es posible moverse y vivir de la mejor manera dentro del ámbito de lo político. Para ello, en primer lugar se examina el concepto de prudencia (phrónesis) en la obra de Aristóteles; para luego analizar cómo se presenta esta prudencia en el ámbito ético y político, y cómo se produce el cambio de sentido que hace posible que esta sea capturada por el derecho positivo visto como instrumento que, desde el Estado, fuera usado para despojar a personas de su capacidad para la agencia política. Como corolario, el presente trabajo sostiene que el concepto de phrónesis constitye un concepto de utilidad para garantizar el bien común frente a la emergencia de acontecimientos en la esfera política.
If we consider the finitude that invites us to act in a prudent manner, we have asked ourselves the following question: how, in circumstances of change, is it possible to move (life) in the best way within a finite and political context? With this question we have set ourselves the objective of briefly examining how the concept of prudence changed until the seventeenth century and its impact on modern political thought. To do this, we will first examine the concept of phrónesis (prudence) in Aristotle, secondly, analyze how this phrónesis is presented in the ethical and political sphere and finally how the change of meaning that made the conception of Ethics was captured by a positive law seen as an instrument, which from the State, was used to deprive beings of their capacity for political action. As a corollary we can affirm that the concept of phrónesis has been seen by this author as the wise and normative instrument that allows us to take the helm of human affairs in such a way that it can overcome the winds and currents represented by events in a way that can be guarantee not only the life of the ship represented by the individual or political existence, but that this existence does not have the limit determined by the act of recklessness.
