Prudence and unscrupulousness in the Aristotelian ethics: a study about the intellectual capacities that accompany prudence

Authors

  • Fernando Rodrigues Montes D'Oca

Keywords:

prudence, unscrupulousness, cleverness, capacities, dispositions

Abstract

The main objective of the present paper is to present the difference between the prudent (phrónimos) and the unscrupulous (panoúrgos) in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (NE), or even try to understand if these two moral types differ only morally, or also rationally. It must be subjected, to this end, with: a) the presentation of prudence(phrón?sis), cleverness (deinót?s) and unscrupulousness (panourgía) in the NE; b) the presentation of the intellectual dispositions that accompany prudence, sýnesis (discernment), gnóm? (judgment) and noûs (intuitive reason), in the NE; c) an analysis about these dispositions: if they are actually dispositions (héxeis) or intellectual capacities (dynámeis).

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Published

2013-12-10

How to Cite

D’OCA, F. R. M. Prudence and unscrupulousness in the Aristotelian ethics: a study about the intellectual capacities that accompany prudence. Controvérsia (UNISINOS) - ISSN 1808-5253, São Leopoldo, v. 5, n. 1, p. 09–21, 2013. Disponível em: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/controversia/article/view/6708. Acesso em: 30 apr. 2025.

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2009)

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