Deliberation
idea · 4 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
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in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
Reasoned inquiry into means to an end, restricted to attainable, non-eternal, non-necessary, non-chance matters within our own power.
Deliberation must stop at the particular fact, or it will embark on a process ad infinitum.
(In practising an art) the question is at one moment what tools to use, and at another how to use them;
Also there is no room for deliberation about matters fully ascertained and completely formulated as sciences;
On the Peace
The process of judging public policy before events make correction difficult.
on public questions my estimates and decisions are disinterested, and no one can show that my policy and my speeches have been in any way bound up with my private gain.
And the result is that, as long as I can remember, the man who attacks any mistakes you have made gains your applause as an able speaker, but meanwhile the events and the real object of your deliberation wholly escape you.
I perceive, men of Athens, that the present outlook gives rise to much vexation and perplexity, because not only have we suffered serious losses, which cannot be mended by fine speeches, but there is also complete divergence of opinion about the preservation of what is left of our empire, one favoring this policy, another that.
Second Philippic
The civic process by which Athens debates policy, criticized for favoring agreeable speeches over effective action.
On your practical measures you will, if you are wise, deliberate hereafter by yourselves;
Where either side devotes its time and energy, there it succeeds the better—Philip in action, but you in argument.
Though all who aim at their own aggrandizement must be checked, not by speeches, but by practical measures, yet, in the first place, we who come before you shrink from any definite proposal or advice, being reluctant to incur your displeasure;
Orations
The act of reasoning from what is known toward what is not yet known, examined as requiring trained knowledge.
Consider, then, whether deliberation be not something of this kind:
Neither, then, could deliberation about the things that are not exist.
so that perhaps this is what deliberating is—to infer, from what we know, also about the things we do not yet know;