Phronesis
（重定向自Phronetic）
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Overview
- Physics
- Ethics
- Term logic
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Ideas and interests
- Correspondence theory of truth
- Hexis
- Virtue ethics (golden mean)
- Four causes
- Telos
- Phronesis
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Eudaimonia
- Arete
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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
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Corpus Aristotelicum
- Physics
- Organon
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Politics
- Metaphysics
- On the Soul
- Rhetoric
- Poetics
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- Plato
- Alexander the Great
- Theophrastus
- Avicenna
- Averroes
- Maimonides
- Thomas Aquinas
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Martha Nussbaum
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Related topics
- Platonism
- Commentaries on Aristotle
- Scholasticism
- Conimbricenses
- Pseudo-Aristotle
- Views on women
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Philosophyportal |
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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.