#78-79

“Conscience and prudence have some things in common and some differences. They are both about applying right reason in action. Conscience ends in a judgment in the intellect and a person may choose to act against his conscience in the will. Prudence, however, includes the application of truth to practice in the will. The order of a society is oriented to the development of conscience in action of each member of that society; but then also to actually apply this to his will in his actions. The authority must be able to do both.”