ll as more abstract preoccupations:It is plain, then, that philosophic wisdom is scientific knowledge,combined with intuitive reason, of the things that are highest bynature. This is why we say Anaxagoras, Thales, and men likethem have philosophic but not practical wisdom, when we seethem ignorant of what is to their own advantage ... Practical wis-dom on the other hand is concerned with things human andthings about which it is possible to deliberate. (NichomacheanEthics, 1141)Unlike philosophic wisdom, then, practical wisdom is not the pre-rogative of the few, but is accessible to all. Even so, it is not an auto-matic acquisition. To begin with, individuals have a certain respon-sibility, along with parents and teachers, for what they become.Character is formed as a result of the actions that a person freely
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