Navigation
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navigation · the art of navigation · the art of pilotage · the captain of a ship · the pilot
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
The navigational art, cited as an analogy for practical judgment suited to particular circumstances.
for these come under no science or professional tradition, but the agents themselves have to consider what is suited to the circumstances on each occasion, just as is the case with the art of medicine or of navigation.
Statesman
The art of navigation and shipmastery, paired with medicine as the passage's chief analogy for rule guided by living expertise rather than fixed regulation.
The noble captain of a ship and the physician who is worth as much as many others.
Just as the captain of a ship keeps watch for what is at any moment for the good of the vessel and the sailors, not by writing rules, but by making his science his law, and thus preserves his fellow voyagers, so may not a right government be established in the same way by men who could rule by this principle, making science more powerful than the laws?
and that whatever the majority decided about these matters, whether any physicians or ship captains or merely unskilled persons took part in the deliberations, should be inscribed upon tablets and slabs or in some instances should be adopted as unwritten ancestral customs, and that henceforth forever navigation and the care of the sick should be conducted in accordance with these provisions.