Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia / The Art of Worldly Wisdom
(1637) Baltasar Gracián
One of both Nietzsche’s and Schopenhauer’s favourite books. What, you need me to say more?!
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I havent read this book and have no time to look it up. But the title indicates a conceptual link with what in Greek is called ‘phronesis’. PhronÄ“sis (Greek: φÏόνησις) in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is the virtue of practical thought, usually translated “practical wisdom”, sometimes as …
Check it out and see if I am right. You may be especailly interested in the difference with episteme, as the Greeks saw it.
One of both Nietzsche’s and Schopenhauer’s favourite books. What, you need me to say more?!
I havent read this book and have no time to look it up. But the title indicates a conceptual link with what in Greek is called ‘phronesis’. PhronÄ“sis (Greek: φÏόνησις) in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is the virtue of practical thought, usually translated “practical wisdom”, sometimes as …
Check it out and see if I am right. You may be especailly interested in the difference with episteme, as the Greeks saw it.