Wednesday, February 02, 2005
make me wanna kiss myself
B. The chief intellectual virtues.
Science--demonstrative knowledge of the necessary and eternal.
Art--knowledge of how to make things.
Practical wisdom--knowledge of how to secure the ends of human life.
Intuitive reason--knowledge of the principles from which science proceeds.
Philosophic wisdom--the union of intuitive reason and science.
James Brown reason*--kiss your dreams as if they were made of chocolate.
Relations between practical wisdom and political science.
-Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, a long time ago
*possibly not real, but who are we to delineate between the ontological texture of text and the outside-the-mind physical actuality of something? do the Mashed Potato.
