• Wisdom without Science or Art: Phronēsis in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

    The Maples, Virtue Room

    Dr. Greg Kirk (Northern Arizona University) In Book Six of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle presents practical wisdom (phronēsis) as the intellectual virtue associated with the domain of action and deliberation. What is curious about practical wisdom is that it is the application of intellect, according to Aristotle, to a domain about which there is neither […]