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Phronesis

Phronesis

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Oct 26, 2026

Charles CassidyHOST
19:01
So we asked him, what are some of the ways organizations block their teams from cultivating practical wisdom? And how can we get better at this?
Barry SchwartzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
19:11
Phronesis requires judgment.
Barry SchwartzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
19:15
In fact, you know, the modern word for it might be good judgment.
Barry SchwartzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
19:22
And one of the arguments that I made with my collaborator in the book we wrote is that you can't teach people good judgment didactically.
Ethan KrossSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
49:13
before we can really
Kristján KristjánssonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
49:15
you know give fully fledged answers to these difficult questions that you've been raising I think we know a lot more about what Phronesis is and how it operates.
Kristján KristjánssonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
49:25
We know about the processes, but the development and the education are still a bit of a black box.
Charles CassidyHOST
49:32
That is a great question from Christian.
Dan HollawayHOST
16:23
Scott says that it descends from the classical Greek and denotes the knowledge that can come only from practical experience.
Dan HollawayHOST
16:30
Phronesis, practical wisdom.
Dan HollawayHOST
16:32
Matisse is the knowledge that comes from that.
Dan HollawayHOST
16:36
He contrasts it with episteme and techne, which are the kinds of knowledge that can be written down, taught from a book, verified by a stranger, like math, right? Science.
Justin SledgeHOST
15:16
This is especially clear in the translation of that Hebrew phrase chokhmat elohim, or divine wisdom, as either Sophia or phronesis in the Septuagint or as epistemon in other texts.
Justin SledgeHOST
15:29
As these terms have a significant linguistic valence, Sophia can refer to a wide range of literary and poetic skills, knowledge of nature and divine matters, to specific philosophical wisdom.
Justin SledgeHOST
15:40
Phronesis, on the other hand, most often has the sense of practical knowledge in politics and otherwise, while epistemon often has a more technical or sometimes even theoretical sense, depending on how it's coming from people like Aristotle.
Justin SledgeHOST
15:55
Further, the sections of 1 Kings 5, when rendered into Greek, expand upon the sense of proverbs and songs in the Hebrew to a different semantic range in Greek, parabolas and odai.
Justin SledgeHOST
16:07
which also carry astrological and magical valences in Greek that don't really occur in the original Hebrew.
Timothy GordonHOST
53:01
There are five, the five parts of our soul.
Timothy GordonHOST
53:04
Phronesis or prudentia is what we call prudence, and it always involves the moral agent.
Timothy GordonHOST
53:12
So the church will say this is a malum in se.
Timothy GordonHOST
53:15
You can't do contraception.

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