Aristotle

  • As health produces health, so does philosophic wisdom produce happiness. Wisdom is a part of virtue that once possessed makes a man happy.
  • A man of practical wisdom has both knowledge and ability to act; the incontinent man has knowledge but lacks the ability to act.
  • Understanding is neither about things that are unchangeable nor about things changeable; it is about the objects of practical wisdom. Practical wisdom issues commands, its object is to do the right thing; understanding decides.
  • Excellence of deliberation is not opinion. The man who deliberates badly makes mistakes while he who deliberates well does so correctly; correctness in deliberation is the truth that determines opinion. Excellent deliberation attains what is good which is the aim of the man of practical wisdom
  • No one is a philosopher by nature; people have by natural judgement, understanding and intuitive reason. We ought to attend to the sayings and opinions of experienced and older people or of people of practical wisdom since experience has given them insight,
  • The work of man is achieved in accordance with practical wisdom and moral virtue; virtue makes us aim at the right mark and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
  • Wisdom must be intuitive reason combined with scientific knowledge.

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  1. shinichi Post author

    (sk)

    Virtue のことを日本では徳という。でも私には、Virtue と徳とが同じものだとは思えない。Virtue ならば身につけることもできそうだが、徳を具えることは不可能に思える。

    Deliberation を推敲という。でもそれは、英語の授業では間違いということになるらしい。熟考とすれば、正しいのだそうだ。「文章を書いた後、字句を良くするために何回も読んで練り直す」のが推敲で、「よく考える」という熟考とは違うのだそうだ。

    英語の試験で良い点を取ることなど、一生かかってもできそうにない。

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