A Genealogy of Practical Wisdom

Matt Statler and Johan Roos
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Matt Statler: New York University (NYU)
Johan Roos: Imagination Lab Foundation

Chapter 9.0 in Everyday Strategic Preparedness, 2007, pp 73-84 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In order to understand what the term ‘practical wisdom’ refers to, we begin by considering a distinction drawn thousands of years ago between scientific knowledge, cunning intelligence, and practical wisdom. In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle claims that scientific knowledge (‘episteme’) seeks to understand the necessary laws and principles of things in the natural world. Aristotle’s articulation of this claim (in the Ethics, as well as the Physics and the Metaphysics) has provided a foundational touchstone for of all the modern traditions of inquiry in the natural sciences — where every appearance of change or transformation is generally presumed to occur in accordance with a principle or law which itself does not change, but holds by necessity and in eternity.

Keywords: Common Good; Practical Wisdom; Philosophical Tradition; Codifiable Quantum; Nicomachean Ethic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230222915_10

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