Greek word ethos => the word ethics literally means “character” One of Aristotle’s goal was to describe what qualities constitute an excellent character. Phronesis, was his answer, living well. Practicality. why learn this? as a rebuttal to the intellectual yet idiots (IYIs)
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aristotle was wrong about sophia and phronesis, phroneses in a world of abundance thus becomes more important sophia is easily available ive learnt more off wikipedia than academia the lecture i went to yesterday, phd lecturer got stumped when i asked him a tough question
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X=telos=aim/purpose/overman telos=>arete/excellence. telos(man)=eudaimonia=happiness/flourishing eudaimonia=decisions∈practical wisdom ^decisions=>^progress, ^potential=>^flourish. In short ∴∑ phronesis=>path(eudaimonia[man])
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telos => (f)man every man has ~ higher telos of eudaimonia telos(dad)=>raise his children–w/ excellence if you don’t understand what your aim is, you’ll never achieve it. no goal no goal achieving no progress no striving no forward momentum in life a shark has to keep moving
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book smarts and street smarts also phronesis => leads to the other wisdoms in this age it is neglected thus it is needed, thus valued. why ? abundance of information and data, lack of wisdom and character too many are slaves to modernity & biology lack of (common) sense
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Was this abstracted from the question that stumped the PhD? If not, what was the question?
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