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Rhetorical situations require phronesis or practical wisdom--the apt adaptation of communication to the complex of autonomous people, measured times, and cultural contexts. To know when to stop and to exchange the mailed fist for a helping hand is surely an element of what the Greeks called phronesis, prudence or political wisdom. He argues for a revival of social inquiry built around Aristotle's phronesis, "variously translated as prudence or practical wisdom," a style of knowledge-building that "involves decisions made in the manner of a virtuoso social and political actor," (2) which will thus resist the flattening of experience produced either by a social science built around techne, or around episteme. |
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