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The Practical Unity of Practical Wisdom
Practical wisdom is the sine qua non of good conduct for Aristotelian virtue ethicists. Aristotelians conceive it as the virtue responsible for the...
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Why Practical Wisdom Cannot be Eliminated
Practical wisdom eliminativism has recently been proposed in both philosophy and psychology, on the grounds of the alleged redundancy of practical...
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Rationality, Virtue and Practical Wisdom in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
The purpose of the paper is to study the interrelatedness of rationality, virtue, and practical wisdom in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by offering...
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Recovering Aristotle’s Practice-Based Ontology: Practical Wisdom as Embodied Ethical Intuition
The renewed engagement with Aristotle’s concept of practical wisdom in management and organization studies is reflective of the wider turn towards...
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Practical Wisdom: At the Heart of Practical Truth
Practical wisdom is the virtue of thought that enables us to grasp truth as it appears in the realm of actions or, in other words, practical truth....
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Aristotelian Practical Wisdom (Phronesis) as the Key to Professional Ethics in Teaching
This article is about a virtue ethical approach to the professional ethics of teaching, centred around the ideal of phronesis (practical wisdom) in...
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The Three Usurpers to the Position of Practical Wisdom: Science, Theoretical Wisdom, Craft
We now enter Book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics which introduces what may be the best-known and most discussed notion of Aristotle’s ethics: phronêsis...
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Conceptual Knowing-How-Based Theoretical Wisdom
Philosophy is typically described as a pursuit of wisdom. However, many philosophers maintain that only one type of wisdom exists—practical wisdom....
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Phronesis and Emotion: The Skill Model of Wisdom Developed
The skill model of wisdom argues that practical wisdom can be best understood in terms of practical skill or expertise, and the model is thought to...
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Love and Flourishing in a Business Organization: The Practical Wisdom of Barry-Wehmiller, Inc.
Organizations can encourage the development of networks of loving relations and an overall culture of love that promotes flourishing. Although...
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Practice for Wisdom: On the Neglected Role of Case-Based Critical Reflection
Despite increased philosophical and psychological work on practical wisdom, contemporary interdisciplinary wisdom research provides few specifics...
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Flourishing Goals, Metacognitive Skills, and the Virtue of Wisdom
Recent models of wisdom in philosophy and psychology have converged on conceptualizing this intellectual virtue as involving metacognitive processes...
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Practical and Theoretical Wisdom in Management Scholarship: Re-assesing the Use and Appropriations of Aristotle’s Philosophy
Within contemporary discussions on organizational wisdom, management scholars frequently turn to Aristotle’s work to conceptualize wisdom as phronesis ...
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The Practical Wisdom of Entrepreneurial Judgment
Entrepreneurship, defined as judgmental decision-making under conditions of uncertainty, is studied in many different disciplines across the social...
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Wisdom, Virtues, and Well-Being: An Empirical Test of Aristotle’s Theory of Flourishing
According to Aristotle, wisdom orchestrates all other virtues and therefore leads to eudaimonia, which can be translated as flourishing or...
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Bridging the Fact/Value Divide in Wisdom Research: The Development of Expertise in Wise Decision-Making
What are the relations among wisdom, virtue, and expertise? Wisdom can be defined broadly as knowledge about how to live well. At the least, the task...
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Religious Knowledge and Religious Wisdom
This chapter treats the relationship between religious knowledge and religious wisdom. In some religious contexts in various traditions, wisdom takes...
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Personal Moral Wisdom
Personal Moral Wisdom. We often hear that we should follow our moral compass – or our judgment, our values, our conscience, or our image of our best...
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Wisdom as Courage
Socrates uses cross-examination to ponder the nature of courage and the way it responds to the challenges of knowledge, moving beyond conventional...
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Wisdom Above Soldierly Courage
For Plato and Aristotle, intellectual wisdom is the thread that knits the whole fabric of virtue and society together. Epistêmê provides the order...