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Search complete. 5 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Phronesis".
Oct 26, 2026
73: Special Series Episode 5: Wisdom Frontiers
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19:01Charles CassidyHOST
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?
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19:11Barry SchwartzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Phronesis requires judgment.
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19:15Barry SchwartzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In fact, you know, the modern word for it might be good judgment.
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19:22Barry SchwartzSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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.
72: Special Series Episode 4: Interventions and Training
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49:13Ethan KrossSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
before we can really
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49:15Kristján KristjánssonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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.
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49:25Kristján KristjánssonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We know about the processes, but the development and the education are still a bit of a black box.
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49:32Charles CassidyHOST
That is a great question from Christian.
417 | Go Away and Think
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16:23Dan HollawayHOST
Scott says that it descends from the classical Greek and denotes the knowledge that can come only from practical experience.
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16:30Dan HollawayHOST
Phronesis, practical wisdom.
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16:32Dan HollawayHOST
Matisse is the knowledge that comes from that.
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16:36Dan HollawayHOST
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.
Who was Solomon? How a King of Israel became the Master of Demons
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15:16Justin SledgeHOST
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.
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15:29Justin SledgeHOST
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.
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15:40Justin SledgeHOST
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.
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15:55Justin SledgeHOST
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.
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16:07Justin SledgeHOST
which also carry astrological and magical valences in Greek that don't really occur in the original Hebrew.
Friendly DP Debate: 3-person discussion w/ Eric McCabe and Cameron Riecker
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53:01Timothy GordonHOST
There are five, the five parts of our soul.
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53:04Timothy GordonHOST
Phronesis or prudentia is what we call prudence, and it always involves the moral agent.
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53:12Timothy GordonHOST
So the church will say this is a malum in se.
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53:15Timothy GordonHOST
You can't do contraception.