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of practical knowledge that Aristotle discusses at length.
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This quality of practical judgment and reflection is,
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again, somehow unique to the political art or the political skill
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Aristotle tells us.
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It is the ability not only to keep the ship of state afloat,
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but allows the greatest statesmen to guide the ship,
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to steer it safely to port, that is to say the kind of knowledge
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needed by the statesmen.
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Aristotle's political science, then, is ultimately the supreme
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science of statecraft, a term that again we don't hear much
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about--statecraft or statesmanship.
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It's regarded perhaps by today's political science as too value laden,