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Peculiarity of Practical Knowledge

Summary/Abstract: For Aristotle, the notion of practical knowledge (phronesis) meant a peculiar form or way of revealing the truth, consisting in the clarifying of a specific human situation in view of practical coping with it. He did not exaggerate the role or significance of such knowledge, since he did not believe that any human efforts or actions could be really based on any kind of knowledge. Nevertheless, practical knowledge was, in principle, opposed by Aristotle to all other kinds of knowledge, as he firmly believed that there could be no real human world without practical knowledge, that this knowledge is a necessary subsidiary means of the man's self-realization in all his essential human possibilities. The author here reasonably points to an extraordinary modernity and universal significance of Aristotle's concept of practical philosophy, but he also resolutely reminds us of the dependence of some of his starting premises and proposed solutions on the conditions of his time, as well as of their limitations.

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