Practical wisdom
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practical wisdom · wisdom
in the texts
On Virtues and Vices
The virtue of the reasoning part of the soul
It belongs to practical wisdom to deliberate well;
Practical wisdom is the virtue of the reasoning part, which prepares the means toward happiness.
If the soul is taken, following Plato, as having three parts, then the virtue of the reasoning part is practical wisdom;
Busiris
The virtue of practical wisdom, attributed to Busiris's institutional design and to the sciences cultivated among the young in Egypt.
Furthermore, the cultivation of practical wisdom may also reasonably be attributed to Busiris.
the value of these sciences some praise for their utility in certain ways, while others attempt to demonstrate that they are conducive in the highest measure to the attainment of virtue.