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sense of know-how or political savvy.
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This kind of knowledge entails judgment and deliberation,
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the deliberative skill or the deliberative art.
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We only deliberate, Aristotle says, over things where
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there is some choice.
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We deliberate with an eye to preservation or change,
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to making something better or to preserve it from becoming worse.
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This kind of knowledge will be the art or craft of the statesman
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concerned above all with what to do in a specific situation.
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It is the skill possessed by the greatest statesmen,
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you might say, the fathers of the constitutions,
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as it were, who create the permanent framework in which allows later and