"Echoing Abbott"

Grice writes of 'counsels of prudence' and 'modus' as manner, etc. His is not Kant. He is 'echoing Abbott', rather!

Etc.

JLS

1866 J. GROTE Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) ii. 28, I have called
utilitarianism..superficial, because..it rests so much on mere prudentialisms.

2003 S. J. BALL Class Strategies & Educ. Market viii. 179 The need to give
consideration to the fate of others has been lessened..by the inroads of
neo-liberalism, and the concomitant regime of prudentialism.

1976 MLN 91 1204 Next he encounters Parson Adams, who is at the other
extreme of prudentiality from Lady Booby.

1993 Brit. Jrnl. Social Work 23 (BNC) 419 This postulates the distribution
of resources according to how individual agents acting prudentially..would
distribute resources for a hypothetical life span.

---- My main and only reference, though, would be the last but one chapter
in Grice, "Aspects of Reason". I find his approach fascinating in that he
explores the UNIVERSALISABILITY of 'prudential' maxims NOT alla Kant, but
alla Aristotle --

Do q!

Universalisable as

If p, do q!

where "p" has a CONSTANT value: 'be happy!'. It is _this_ which has led philosophers like Grice (he calls himself a follower of Ariskant or Kantotle) to examine, not so much the analysis of

x is prudent

(always good and necessary and sufficient) but of

happiness

itself.

Personally, I have used -- and you may quote me! -- this in the justification of Gricean pragmatic maxims ("Honesty is the best strategy" and other bullshit of utilitarianism passing for 'morality'! -- my mentoring here was R. Warner's reply to R. Stalnaker in "The Philosophy of H. P. Grice -- Journal of Philosophy, 1991).

ratschlag der besonnenheit

And Grice uses Abbott's translation of Kant.