Phronêsis and the Ideal of Beauty

Lories, Danielle
(2017) Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political. Essays in honor of Jacques Taminiaux — ISBN: [9783319561592 9783319561608], p. 29-40, published

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(en) Phronesis is a key concept of Aristotelian ethics. But how to understand the phronimos’s specific ability in relation to the action ? He is a good judge of what to do hic et nunc. According to Aristotle the phronimos deliberates and judges well; and he evaluates what to do by referring not only to the particular case but to universal. What is this relationship between a particular case and a universal if it differs from the relationship between the particular and the universal in a mathematical deduction? The hypothesis followed here is that the universal instance is rather a single ideal built by the imagination from a variety of unique experiences, on the model of the ideal of beauty described by Kant
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Lories, D. (2017). Phronêsis and the Ideal of Beauty. In Phenomenology and the Primacy of the Political. Essays in honor of Jacques Taminiaux (p. p. 29-40). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56160-8_3