Epistemological Place of Phronesis and its Importance in Aristotle’ s Philosophy of Ethics

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Nazemi Ardakani Ali; DAVARI ARDAKANI REZA; HOSSEINI MALEK

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Journal: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Year:2019 | Volume:10 | Issue:1 Page(s): 63-78

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Epistemological Place of Phronesis and its Importance in Aristotle’ s Philosophy of Ethics

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Nazemi Ardakani Ali | DAVARI ARDAKANI REZA | HOSSEINI MALEK | Issue Writer Certificate

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PhronesisQ1

practical wisdomQ2

SophiaQ1

theoretical wisdomQ2

practico-ethical wisdomQ1

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Phronesis or practical wisdom is one of the intellectual virtues which Aristotle has defined as a predisposition for continuously becoming involved in practice while thinking wisely about good and evil affairs. The outcome of this predisposition or phronetic act is the product of a kind of philosophical thinking which, in addition to viewing certain established principles, attends to madī na (polis) as a cradle for the development of acts; to finite, particular, and changing affairs as the subject of knowledge, and to Man as a free agent. The irregularity and, at the same time, legitimacy of Phronesis provides individuals with a strategy not to surrender to fixed and strict scientific laws as the only legitimate tools of knowledge acquisition. Through making a methodological distinction between Sophia or theoretical wisdom and Phronesis, Aristotle has in fact founded the independence and irreducibility of practico-ethical knowledge about what is correct; practical deliberation cannot be reduced to logical arguments. In Aristotle’ s ethical philosophy, accidental knowledge, as the knowledge of finite, particular, possible, and changing affairs, is a complement to essential knowledge, which pertains to pre-eternal and universal affairs and primal and fixed basic principles. Sophia and Phronesis can lead to happiness only in case they function as the two sides of the same coin.

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Nazemi Ardakani, Ali, DAVARI ARDAKANI, REZA, & HOSSEINI, MALEK. (2019). Epistemological Place of Phronesis and its Importance in Aristotle’ s Philosophy of Ethics. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, 10(1 ), 63-78. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/379572/en

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Nazemi Ardakani Ali, DAVARI ARDAKANI REZA, HOSSEINI MALEK. Epistemological Place of Phronesis and its Importance in Aristotle’ s Philosophy of Ethics. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY[Internet]. 2019;10(1 ):63-78. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/379572/en

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Ali Nazemi Ardakani, REZA DAVARI ARDAKANI, and MALEK HOSSEINI, “Epistemological Place of Phronesis and its Importance in Aristotle’ s Philosophy of Ethics,” HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, vol. 10, no. 1 , pp. 63–78, 2019, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/379572/en

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