phronesis

• “This last explanation seems decidedly preferable because the terms here used, particularly the word phronesis prudence, is not in its ordinary sense properly referable to God.”

  A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians

• “They leave out something essential--what classical philosopher Aristotle called practical wisdom his word was phronesis.”

  The Huffington Post: Barry Schwartz: Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing

• “With wisdom the apostle connects phronesis, which is here used much in the same sense as sunesis in Col. 1, 9, ` That ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. ”

  A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians

• “Pickstock argues that these two responsibilities are bridged with the notion of phronesis or prudence:”

  TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog

• “Aristotle called it "phronesis," or practical wisdom.”

  Newsweek: Q&A: What Would Plato Have Done?

• “He takes issue with Bent Flyvbjerg's book, Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again, and his advocacy of "phronesis".”

  Archive 2008-04-01

• “Matt, that makes me think maybe there is something to the notion of phronesis, which can be identified here by its complete absence.”

  Discourse.net: Let's Ban Footnotes Too!

• “Overall we need to remember that knowledge management is, to use the Greek, a matter of phronesis or practical wisdom; its the exercise of judgement and that can only be developed in action through the acquisition of habits.”

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• “Laitin characterizes the method of phronesis as one that is sensitive to context and that pays close attention to the singular and specific features of a particular social process -- for example, the positioning that occurs as a city decides on its economic development strategy.”

  Archive 2008-04-01

• “So the method of phronesis is intentionally not aiming to discover regularities across a set of instances, but rather to uncover some specific features of a particular ongoing process.”

  Archive 2008-04-01

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