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In this series we are recovering several lost goals of education by exploring Aristotle\u2019s intellectual virtues<\/a> as replacement learning objectives for Bloom\u2019s taxonomy<\/a>. Prudence or practical wisdom (phronesis<\/em>) is one such lost goal, which is endorsed by the biblical book of Proverbs and the New Testament, even if Aristotle\u2019s exact terminology is not adhered to. The classical tradition too aimed at moral formation, including moral reasoning or normative inquiry as a primary goal. (See Counsels of the Wise, Part 1: Foundations of Christian Prudence<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, we noted in the last article<\/a> that our recovery movement has at times struggled to name prudence or practical wisdom specifically as a central strand of the liberal arts tradition. And because of our modern scientism<\/a> this has likely resulted in a de facto<\/em> neglect of prudential wisdom in the classroom. We may give lip service to wisdom and virtue as our goals, but our teachers may be only nominally inclined to turn the liberal arts we train or the classic works we study toward the ends of practical wisdom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even when we teach ethics, we are often like C.S. Lewis\u2019 moral philosophers, quick to philosophize in the abstract, and to teach Great Books in their historical and literary context, but reticent to help students apply moral reasoning to their own lives. In fact, there may be some classical educators who view such preachiness as out of place. Their view of classical education is all classical languages and literature, mathematics and science for its own sake and for the mental training they afford. Practical considerations that include the particulars of modern life and the choices that students will have to make are, in their estimation, wholly out of place. They are quick to cry pragmatism and utilitarianism, preferring instead an arcane and ivory tower classicism. I would encourage such persons to read Proverbs, Xenophon\u2019s Memorabilia<\/em> and Plato\u2019s Republic<\/em>, and then return to read the rest of this series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In fact, Aristotle\u2019s intellectual virtue<\/a> of prudence proposes the ideal middle way in education between practicality and liberality, between what is useful and learning for its own sake. The joy of learning<\/a> is indeed one of the values of the classical tradition, but so is practicality and a stoic awareness of the limited time we have on earth. We might think of this under the classical quest for the good life or the life well lived. Education is not all fun and games, even arcane and intellectual ones; our choices often have the weight of life and death upon them. In this light, all subjects of study have a practical dimension to them, in terms of how human beings should think about, value and use them for other ends. There is a hierarchy of goods and needs, and human beings ought to value the world in a certain way, in accordance with a true ordo amoris<\/em>, to cite Augustine\u2019s phrase for a proper ordering of loves. By adopting this perspective or attuning ourselves to this dimension of things, we will begin to see how we might instill prudence in the young.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deliberating about the Beneficial<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Aristotle begins his more detailed discussion of the intellectual virtue<\/a> of prudence or phronesis<\/em> with a set of common sense considerations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regarding practical wisdom we shall get at the truth by considering who are the persons we credit with it. Now it is thought to be the mark of a man of practical wisdom to be able to deliberate well about what is good and expedient for himself, not in some particular respect, e.g. about what sorts of thing conduce to health or to strength, but about what sorts of thing conduce to the good life in general.<\/p>\nNicomachean Ethics<\/em>, VI, ch. 5 (trans. by W. D. Ross accessed at The Internet Classics Archive<\/a>)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

People with prudence are masters of deliberation or consultation (as some translations have it; the Greek bouleuo <\/em>can mean to \u201ctake counsel, deliberate, or resolve after deliberating\u201d). They are able to consider counsel within themselves or with the help of others (\u201cWithout counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.\u201d Prov. 15:22 ESV), especially regarding what is good, beneficial or expedient for themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case the idea of expediency or prudence itself sounds too Machiavellian, it is to what is expedient or beneficial (Greek sumphero<\/em>) that Paul appeals in 1st Corinthians 6:1, instead of what is simply lawful. In this case, what is expedient or beneficial can be a guide to practical thinking with a higher moral standard than mere law. In this way, Aristotelian expediency can be baptized by applying Jesus\u2019 Golden Rule to love others as we love ourselves. Since we naturally desire what is good and beneficial for ourselves, the spiritual virtue of love of God and neighbor can guide the intellectual virtue of prudence as we deliberate about what is good for our neighbor and ourselves in God\u2019s good world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We must pause here to head off a potential misunderstanding of Aristotle\u2019s statement above. In claiming that practical wisdom entails the ability to \u201cdeliberate well about what is good and expedient for himself, not in some particular respect\u201d like health or physical fitness, Aristotle might be heard as endorsing a philosophical quest for the good life, rather than something practical. On this view, Aristotle\u2019s prudent person asks the big questions of life and doesn\u2019t settle for simplistic answers or get sidetracked by subjects. After all, isn\u2019t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Aristotle cannot mean that a person could have practical wisdom and yet regularly and deliberately make choices that are unhealthy. Otherwise, how could it be that, as Aristotle later states, \u201cit is not possible to be good in the strict sense without practical wisdom, nor practically wise without moral virtue\u201d (Nicomachean Ethics<\/em> Book VI, ch. 13<\/a>). In their true form, moral virtue and practical wisdom are inextricably linked. So, some awareness of particular subjects, like health, that impinge on human wellbeing must be included in an education which aims to promote prudence. But it is one thing to study the art of medicine, with the goal of a profession in the medical field. It is entirely another to acquire the general understanding of particulars that will enable a person to live a healthy life, as one aspect of the good life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From this vantage point, we are prepared to distinguish between two ways in which an education might be practical. The more common usage today sees education as job training. And for all its abuses, there is a legitimate sense in which an education should involve apprenticeship in practical arts, trades and professions<\/a>. An educated person should, in a Christian\u2019s view at least (see e.g., 2 Thess 3:10, ESV: \u201cIf anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.\u201d), be prepared to provide for himself and have something to share with others (Eph 4:28: \u201cLet the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.\u201d). The second way education may be practical is in providing an understanding of right and wrong, good and evil, what is beneficial, excellent and praiseworthy in human life. Practical education not only enables a man to earn a living, but also to conduct his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of this, the art of medicine may be optional, but the study of health is not. But too often we neglect this second type of practicality in favor of the first. The same might be said of other subjects: history and politics, science and literature, technology, mathematics and economics. All these have their practical dimension, in which some understanding of them will help one to make beneficial or expedient decisions for oneself and others in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deliberating with the Variables<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Aristotle goes on to explain practical wisdom as distinct from the arts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is shown by the fact that we credit men with practical wisdom in some particular respect when they have calculated well with a view to some good end which is one of those that are not the object of any art. It follows that in the general sense also the man who is capable of deliberating has practical wisdom.<\/p>\nNicomachean Ethics<\/em>, Book VI, ch. 5<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In essence, prudential wisdom then is about calculating, consulting or deliberating about what is best. It consists in properly weighing the options. Moral virtue itself is a habit<\/a>, and therefore does not involve deliberation. But only by deliberation are moral virtues maintained as habits, and only through the right hands will a person see the right ends and value the means correctly. The arts likewise involve habits, as well as thoughtful analysis of means and ends, but only for the purpose of production, not for essential choices about how to live in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prudential perspective thus sets limits on what is valuable to know or think. It is as the Psalmist said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

my eyes are not raised too high;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do not occupy myself with things<\/p>\n\n\n\n

too great and too marvelous for me.<\/p>\nPsalm 131:1 ESV<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There is a humility in the concerns of prudence to focus on earthly things and human things, rather than divine or arcane marvels. The way Aristotle distinguishes these categories involves the idea of the variable and invariable, what is changeable or unchangeable. Philosophical discussions of contingency developed from this distinction between what must necessarily and logically be true and that which could be otherwise. We might think of variable things as the facts of a case. They are matters which could be different in a different case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This distinction between the variable and invariable aligns with Aristotle\u2019s distinction between practical wisdom (phronesis<\/em>) and scientific knowledge (episteme<\/em>). He explains,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now no one deliberates about things that are invariable, nor about things that it is impossible for him to do. Therefore, since scientific knowledge involves demonstration, but there is no demonstration of things whose first principles are variable (for all such things might actually be otherwise), and since it is impossible to deliberate about things that are of necessity, practical wisdom cannot be scientific knowledge nor art; not science because that which can be done is capable of being otherwise, not art because action and making are different kinds of thing. The remaining alternative, then, is that it is a true and reasoned state of capacity to act with regard to the things that are good or bad for man. For while making has an end other than itself, action cannot; for good action itself is its end.<\/p>\nNicomachean Ethics<\/em>, Book VI, ch. 5<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The goal of production is always its usefulness for something else, but a decision to act a certain way has its goal in itself: living a good life. So far so good on the distinction between artistry and prudence. We have had occasion already to define scientific knowledge (episteme<\/em>) as the ability to demonstrate some truth. In Aristotle\u2019s logical system of distinctions, the possession of scientific knowledge involves the demonstration or proof of something from first principles that could not be otherwise. Aristotle later mentions an example from mathematics: \u201cthat the triangle has or has not its angles equal to two right angles.\u201d No one deliberates or takes counsel about that but only about affairs in which he can make a choice. The first principles that entail knowledge about triangles are fundamental and of necessity; we cannot really imagine a world in which they were otherwise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our conclusion, then, is simply a restatement of Aristotle\u2019s definition of prudence (phronesis<\/em>) as a \u201ctrue and reasoned state of capacity to act with regard to things that are good or bad for man.\u201d The true reasoning of practical wisdom takes place in deliberation, when a person takes counsel by considering various actions. He or she must know the particulars of the situation as well as universal human values. As Aristotle\u2019s says, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nor is practical wisdom concerned with universals only\u2014it must also recognize the particulars; for it is practical, and practice is concerned with particulars. This is why some who do not know, and especially those who have experience, are more practical than others who know; for if a man knew that light meats are digestible and wholesome but did not know which sorts of meat are light, he would not produce health, but the man who knows that chicken is wholesome is more likely to produce health.<\/p>\nNicomachean Ethics<\/em>, Book VI, ch. 7<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Aristotle comes full circle on the example of health, enabling us to confirm that there is a prudential perspective on the subject of human health. We can distinguish it even further from scientific knowledge now through this example. While a person might know through deductive reasoning from the first principles of (ancient) medicine and nutrition that light meats are digestible and wholesome, he could still be unaware of the particulars. An experienced person might not know the general categories and theory, but know the particular facts that chicken is wholesome. So, in deliberating about what to eat that might promote health, the experienced person is at an advantage over the person with theoretical knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reclaiming the Practical Perspective for Classical Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All that we have seen so far demonstrates the legitimacy of taking a practical perspective on various subjects in education. One of the unfortunate effects of the modern education landscape is that practicality has been subsumed under progressive education\u2019s utilitarianism and pragmatism. In defending subjects like Latin, ancient and medieval history, and the arts, from those who swept out impractical subjects for dead people, some classical educators have strapped on the armor of \u201cart for art\u2019s sake\u201d so long that have reflexively neglected the proper practicality of the classical tradition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, contemporary educators have tended to stress research findings to support making subjects relevant to the lives of their students. On the one hand, such insistence on connecting everything to students’ day-to-day lives seems extreme and anti-classical. Must I really make connections between modern day gang wars and the stories of the Greeks and Trojans? Context is everything. Such a teaching move could be either far-fetched or brilliant. Besides, the supposition that every subject of study must prove itself as relevant to the student before he or she can rightfully be expected to engage it with their full attention is manifestly pernicious. Teachers and schools end up cutting valuable subjects and justifying the practicality of STEM on the job-preparation motive alone<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the other hand, we now have classical reason, founded in the educational objective of developing prudence, to adopt the practical perspective, especially on the humanities, health, and economics, without neglecting the cultivation of other intellectual virtues in their place. After all, relevance is only one among several factors that \u201creduce stress and lead to the thinking, reflective brain response\u201d (see Neuroteach<\/a><\/em>, by Whitman and Kelleher, p. 69). It is not the case that every subject must justify itself as practical, in the sense of relevant to my personal life decisions. Yet the practicality of instructing the conscience for life must be the beating heart of the whole educational experience, not the whole of education but a living center that pumps the blood of human interest into every other part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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