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The Parts of Prudence and Scientific Solutions for Weakness of Will

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Kaczor C.
Diametros
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2013
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issue 38
128-133
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This essay outlines a view of practical wisdom drawing on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. In it, I discuss the presuppositions of practical wisdom, namely the ordering to the end of true human happiness. Next, the focus shifts to the “parts” or elements of practical wisdom in order to highlight the intellectual aspects of practical wisdom as a cognitive perfection. Finally, the essay addresses prudence as practical, the actual carrying out of the right deed, at the right time and in the right way. Here, the conclusion of the essay considers the findings of contemporary science in the search for remedies for weakness of will.
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Truth in Practical Reason: Practical and Assertoric Truth in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

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Pantoulias M., Vergouli V., Thanassas P.
Peitho. Examina Antiqua
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2021
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vol. 12
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issue 1
197-221
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Truth has always been a controversial subject in Aristotelian scholarship. In most cases, including some well-known passages in the Categories, De Interpretatione and Metaphysics, Aristotle uses the predicate ‘true’ for assertions, although exceptions are many and impossible to ignore. One of the most complicated cases is the concept of practical truth in the sixth book of Nicomachean Ethics: its entanglement with action and desire raises doubts about the possibility of its inclusion to the propositional model of truth. Nevertheless, in one of the most extensive studies on the subject, C. Olfert has tried to show that this is not only possible but also necessary. In this paper, we explain why trying to fit practical truth into the propositional model comes with insurmountable problems. In order to overcome these problems, we focus on multiple aspects of practical syllogism and correlate them with Aristotle’s account of desire, happiness and the good. Identifying the role of such concepts in the specific steps of practical reasoning, we reach the conclusion that practical truth is best explained as the culmination of a well-executed practical syllogism taken as a whole, which ultimately explains why this type of syllogism demands a different approach and a different kind of truth than the theoretical one.
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Concordia Doctrinarum or the Concept of Cosmic Harmony in Gerard of Cenad

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Mesaroș C.
Dialogue and Universalism
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2015
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issue 1
78-85
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Gerard of Cenad, the first Christian Bishop (1030–1046) in the region known today as Banat, authored the Deliberatio supra Hymnum Trium Puerorum, a hermeneutical treatise of great importance for the 11th-century philosophy. The concept of concordia doctrinarum has been commented in several ways as the universal theology of the Catholic Church. Our study discusses this concept in relation with another Gerardian concept, that of divine procession. We argue that there is an idea of cosmic harmony in Gerard, strictly linked to more than one preceding doctrines. First, it is linked to the Areopagitic notion of processus, meaning. Second, Gerard links the same concept with the idea of cosmic hierarchy. The cosmic hierarchy in Gerard of Cenad offers a valuable perspective of a holistic kind, within the Christian so-called Platonic orientation of the 11th-century Latin tradition.
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Fronésis a problém zvažování

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Konrádová V.
Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
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2017
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vol. 65
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issue 5
707-719
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The paper analyzes the Aristotelian concept of phronesis especially with regard to the political context that shapes certain aspects of this conception. After a general presentation of the role played by phronesis in individual and communal life, the performance of phronesis is further specified in connection with defining the field for deliberation (bouleusis). On this issue, the paper discusses not only the nature of possible objects of deliberation and the mechanisms of the deliberative process, but also possibly deficient forms of bouleusis. The ethical and political implications of different forms of deficient bouleusis are at the same time related to the political analysis of fundamental relationships within the structure of governance. The paper examines in detail the problematic bouleusis in the case of women and, in its final part, raises the question of to what extent Aristotle’s intention – in his analysis of phronesis and the associated concept bouleusis with men and their ethical, or rather political, virtue in mind – allows one to approach a more universal view of human phronesis.
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From Democritus to Bertrand Russell and Back

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Motte A.
Peitho. Examina Antiqua
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2019
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vol. 10
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issue 1
153-170
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Although Bertrand Russell is probably most famous for his “logi­cal atomism,” it is his ethical thought that this article will attempt to contrast with the ethics of the founder of the ancient atomism: Democritus of Abdera. Russell has himself suggested certain affinity here. More concerned with practice than theory, both philosophers advocate a certain teleological and eudemonistic morality; furthermore, they both adopt the same approaches to various related topics. Yet, what had only been outlined by Democritus was extensively developed by Russell. Hence, it is worth examining whether there is any deeper common ground between the two: can Russell’s clarity throw some light on Democritus’ fragments?
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