What is practical wisdom and how can it help me?
There is a lot of information and knowledge available to us at the press of a button but widsom is altogether different. Where it differs from knowledge is that practical wisdom is what guides us to know and do the right thing.
This sounds straightforward but in practice it is not so easy. The concept comes from the great Greek philosopher Aristotle who describes in detail what it is to be a person of character or virtue.
Aristotle tells us that we each have various internal capacities which we can develop by practice. It is by repeated practice that we develop these qualities or virtues. The virtue of practical wisdom is where we use our mind, feeling and our life experience to decide what is the right or ethical action to take in any given situation.
What is the right or ethical action is what supports the individual human person and their community to flourish. This is a short and condensed version of a paper I gave recently at a conference on Sin, Virtue and Vice in the beautiful city of Prague, in the Czech Republic. You can read my full paper on this topic by clicking here
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