Thoughts on phronesis. Issue 2 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Burbules, Nicholas C.
• Is Part Of: Ethics and education. Volume 14:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 126
• Page End: 137
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Phronesis -- practice -- virtue ethics; Education -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; Education -- Aims and objectives -- Periodicals; Education -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Moral education -- Periodicals; 370.1
• DOI: 10.1080/17449642.2019.1587689
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-9642

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay explores the concept of phronesis in two contexts: phronesis as a virtue, in fact a meta-virtue because it guides the exercise of other virtues; and phronesis as an element in theories of practice. I argue that these two aspects are closely related, because ethics – especially virtue ethics – is best understood as a kind of practice. The second part of the essay explores some of the consequences of thinking about ethics in this way.