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Practical wisdom involves
{ 1 } - deliberating about concrete ways to achieve the good life.
{ 2 } - a correct grasp of the first principles of morality.
{ 3 } - both of these.
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Practical wisdom involves
{ 1 } - deliberating about concrete ways to achieve the good life.
{ 2 } - a correct grasp of the first principles of morality.
{ 3 } - both of these.
This deliberation requires a wide experience of life. We need this. But we also need to know what the good life is. And this involves the grasp of first principles.
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Practical wisdom involves
{ 1 } - deliberating about concrete ways to achieve the good life.
{ 2 } - a correct grasp of the first principles of morality.
{ 3 } - both of these.
Aristotle calls the grasp of first principles "intuitive reason." We need this. But we also need to know how to apply these principles to the concrete details of life.
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Practical wisdom involves
{ 1 } - deliberating about concrete ways to achieve the good life.
{ 2 } - a correct grasp of the first principles of morality.
{ 3 } - both of these.
We need to know both the right principles (which we get from intuitive reason) and how to apply them in concrete ways (which we get from a wide experience of life).
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