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A Genealogy of Practical Wisdom

In: Everyday Strategic Preparedness

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  • Matt Statler

    (New York University (NYU)
    Imagination Lab Foundation)

  • Johan Roos

    (Imagination Lab Foundation
    Stockholm School of Economics (SSE))

Abstract

In order to understand what the term ‘practical wisdom’ refers to, we begin by considering a distinction drawn thousands of years ago between scientific knowledge, cunning intelligence, and practical wisdom. In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle claims that scientific knowledge (‘episteme’) seeks to understand the necessary laws and principles of things in the natural world. Aristotle’s articulation of this claim (in the Ethics, as well as the Physics and the Metaphysics) has provided a foundational touchstone for of all the modern traditions of inquiry in the natural sciences — where every appearance of change or transformation is generally presumed to occur in accordance with a principle or law which itself does not change, but holds by necessity and in eternity.

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  • Matt Statler & Johan Roos, 2007. "A Genealogy of Practical Wisdom," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Everyday Strategic Preparedness, chapter 9, pages 73-84, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-22291-5_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230222915_10
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