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Single Idea 20212

[catalogued under 20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason]

Full Idea

Practical reason [phronesis] is a truth-attaining intellectual quality concerned with doing, and with the things that are good for human beings.

Gist of Idea

Practical reason is truth-attaining, and focused on actions good for human beings

Source

Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], II 5.1), quoted by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski - Virtues of the Mind II 5.1

Book Reference

Zagzebski,Linda: 'Virtues of the Mind' [CUP 1996], p.211


A Reaction

That sounds suspiciously like wisdom to me. Or maybe wisdom also has a contemplative aspect.