000000681 001__ 681 000000681 005__ 20250924101134.0 000000681 02470 $$a10.6082/M1DB7ZWW$$2doi 000000681 037__ $$aTHESIS$$bDissertation 000000681 041__ $$aeng 000000681 245__ $$aThe Labors of Wisdom 000000681 260__ $$bUniversity of Chicago 000000681 269__ $$a2017 000000681 300__ $$a169 000000681 336__ $$aDissertation 000000681 502__ $$bPh.D. 000000681 540__ $$a© 2017 Dhananjay Jagannathan 000000681 590__ $$aInterpreters of Aristotle have long struggled to make sense of how practical wisdom (phronêsis) can be both a form of understanding of the human good in general and the knowledge whereby a virtuous person deliberates and chooses correctly in particular circumstances. My dissertation defends a novel view of phronêsis that accounts for both these features by focusing on the development of phronêsis from ethical experience (empeiria), which is a product of habituation into the virtues of character. Experience is a genuine intellectual grasp that is sufficient for acting virtuously in most ordinary circumstances. Nevertheless, Aristotle argues that for full competence we must aspire to practical wisdom, which turns out to be an extraordinary achievement. I use this developmental perspective to offer a comprehensive and coherent reading of Aristotle’s moral epistemology. My interpretation also has relevance for contemporary theorizing about virtue and practical reason by showing how one can make room for robust ethical knowledge while still doing justice to particularist intuitions about deliberation. 000000681 653__ $$aAristotle 000000681 653__ $$adeliberation 000000681 653__ $$aexperience 000000681 653__ $$apolitics 000000681 653__ $$apractical wisdom 000000681 653__ $$avirtue 000000681 690__ $$aArts & Humanities Division 000000681 691__ $$aPhilosophy 000000681 7001_ $$aJagannathan, Dhananjay$$uUniversity of Chicago 000000681 72012 $$aMartha Nussbaum 000000681 72012 $$aGabriel R. Lear 000000681 8564_ $$937bdd67d-fb1c-46d5-bb5f-7578b755c385$$ePublic$$s1386092$$uhttps://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/681/files/Jagannathan_uchicago_0330D_13629.pdf 000000681 902__ $$ahttp://hdl.handle.net/11417/363 000000681 903__ $$aMade available in DSpace on 2017-08-14T16:59:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jagannathan_uchicago_0330D_13629.pdf: 1386092 bytes, checksum: 89b8c6e253f40a1fbf38377001c26764 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1 000000681 909CO $$ooai:knowledge.uchicago.edu:681$$pDissertations$$pGLOBAL_SET$$qthesis_test 000000681 945__ $$aUChicago Dissertations 000000681 945__ $$aHumanities Division - Dissertations 000000681 946__ $$aUChicago Dissertations 000000681 946__ $$aHumanities Division 000000681 980__ $$aMIG 000000681 983__ $$aDissertation