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  2. Phronesis - Wikipedia

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    In Aristotle's work, phronesis is the intellectual virtue that helps turn one's moral instincts into practical action. [4] [5] He writes that moral virtues help any person to achieve the end, and that phronesis is what it takes to discover the means to gain that end. [4]

  3. Aristotelian ethics - Wikipedia

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    Phronesis or practical wisdom, as shown by good leaders. [17] The virtue of being a truly good friend. [18] Having the nobility kalokagathia of a gentleman. [19] Aristotle also says, for example in NE Book VI, that such a complete virtue requires intellectual virtue, not only practical virtue, but also theoretical wisdom.

  4. Cardinal virtues - Wikipedia

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    Practical wisdom or prudence (phrónēsis) is the perspicacity necessary to conduct personal business and affairs of state. It encompasses the skill to distinguish the beneficial from the detrimental, to understand the attainment of happiness, and to discern the right course of action in every situation.

  5. Wisdom - Wikipedia

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    Practical wisdom , which is the ability to make sound decisions in everyday life. Aristotle saw phronesis as essential for ethical living, arguing that virtuous actions require both knowledge and experience. This concept of practical wisdom later influenced virtue ethics and modern discussions of decision-making. [19]

  6. Nicomachean Ethics - Wikipedia

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    Practical wisdom also concerns intuitively-grasped particulars (somewhat resembling nous, which is intuition about universals). For example, recognizing a triangle without having to count the sides and add up the angles is using practical wisdom in this way. [1]: VI.8 People with practical wisdom deliberate well.

  7. Virtue ethics - Wikipedia

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    Phronesis (φρόνησις; prudence, practical virtue, or practical wisdom) is an acquired trait that enables its possessor to identify the best thing to do in any given situation. [10] Unlike theoretical wisdom, practical reason results in action or decision. [11]

  8. Prudence - Wikipedia

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    Phronesis, or practical wisdom, holds an important place in rhetorical theory as a central aspect of judgment and practice. Aristotle's notion of phronesis fits with his treatise on rhetoric because neither, in his estimation, could be reduced to an episteme or a techne , and both deal with the ability to deliberate about contingent, variable ...

  9. Tacit knowledge - Wikipedia

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    Examples of this include individual wisdom, experience, insight, motor skill, and intuition. [1] An example of "explicit" information that can be recorded, conveyed, and understood by the recipient is the knowledge that London is in the United Kingdom.