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Most importantly, you might say, what distinguishes
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the gentleman as a class from the philosophers is a certain kind of
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knowledge or practical intelligence.
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The gentleman may lack the speculative intelligence of a
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Socrates, but he will possess that quality of practical rationality,
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of practical judgment necessary for the administration of affairs.
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Aristotle calls this kind of knowledge, this kind of practical
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judgment, he calls it by the term "phronimos", that I
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The person who possesses it is the "phronimos", a person
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of practical judgment.
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Again, a term that captures something of our meaning of common
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sense, practical wisdom, the capacity for judging,