期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：1992
卷号：17
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：I think it is accurate to describe our scene as a~wash in cleverness but devoid of wisdom. As defined by Aristotle, cleverness is ingenuity of persons at getting what they want. As a form of wisdom, phronesis is knowledge of the good. As "practical wisdom" it is self-guidance in progressive actualization of one's own potential worth, producing objective value in the world and providing to the seu eudairnonia, which is the gratification of self-fulfilling living. Phronesis became the Latin prudentia and our "prudence," but in the translations wisdom was lost, and our term means to us something; like cautious foresight. While phronesis was in Aristotle's world the supreme personal virtue, we regard prudence as a skill with dubious moral standing
