In Part 1 Dunne makes some very pertinent remarks in helping us see the connections between Newman's illative sense and Aristotle's phronesis. |
The ultimate object of this was what the Greeks called phronesis, or practical wisdom. |
Policy-making does, however require Aristotelian phronesis, particularly in the form of an ability to recognize salient facts that require invoking the exception-clause of a guiding picture. |
But are you sure that Aristotles phronesis is indeed the right sort of phronesis? |
This practical wisdom is akin to Aristotelian phronesis. |
When participants in a political dispute show themselves to lack phronesis, then we are entitled to judge them irrational. |