Prudence as a Calling (Vocation) to Live a Life of Perfect Virtue (Complete Happiness) in the Teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas

This article attempts to restore uncommon common sense in the form of moral, intellectual, practical, and productive prudence and philosophical realism to the contemporary world. It refers to the position of St. Thomas Aquinas, according to which proper for someone wise is to “meditate and the divine truth, which is the origin of all truth” and include in refuting “the opposing falsehood”, refuting false claims made against religion. In the spirit and tradition of Socrates, Plato, and Aquinas, today the duty, of someone wise is to become an ‘Uncommon Commonsense Philosophical Realist’, what should also be understood as his vocation.