Phronesis

Aristotelianism
Overview Peripatetic school Physics Ethics Term logic Theology (unmoved mover)
Ideas and interests Correspondence theory of truth Hexis Virtue ethics (golden mean) Four causes Telos Phronesis Eudaimonia Arete Temporal finitism Antiperistasis Philosophy of nature (sublunary sphere) Potentiality and actuality Universals (substantial form) Hylomorphism Mimesis Catharsis Substance (ousia) Essence /Accident Category of being Minima naturalia Magnanimity Sensus communis Rational animal Genus–differentia
Corpus Aristotelicum Physics Organon Nicomachean Ethics Politics Metaphysics On the Soul Rhetoric Poetics
Influences Followers Plato Alexander the Great Theophrastus Avicenna Averroes Maimonides Thomas Aquinas Alasdair MacIntyre Martha Nussbaum
Related topics Platonism Commentaries on Aristotle Scholasticism Conimbricenses Pseudo-Aristotle Views on women
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Phronesis (Ancient Greek: φρόνησις, phronēsis) is a Greek word for a type of wisdom or intelligence. It is more specifically a type of wisdom relevant to practical things, requiring an ability to discern how or why to act virtuously and encourage practical virtue, excellence of character, in others. Phronesis was a common topic of discussion in ancient Greek philosophy.