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    Practical wisdom is the intellectual virtue responsible for determining moral choice.

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    • 1.Moral virtues belong to the part of the soul that obeys reason, not the part that reasons itself.
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    • 2.Practical wisdom is a virtue of the part of the soul that itself reasons.
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    • 3.It is the role of practical wisdom to determine choice in action.
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    • 1.Moral choice is constitutively shaped by appetitive states that practical wisdom cannot fully govern or override.
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    • 2.Akrasia demonstrates that correct deliberation by practical wisdom fails to produce virtuous action when desire is disordered.
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    • 3.Therefore, practical wisdom is a necessary but insufficient determinant of moral choice, which is also constituted by non-rational desire.
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    • 1.Kant argues that moral choice is determined by the will's rational self-legislation under the categorical imperative, not by context-sensitive deliberation about particulars.
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    • 2.Practical wisdom, as Aristotle conceives it, is essentially tied to contingent ends and empirical circumstances rather than pure practical reason.
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    • 3.A capacity bound to contingent particulars cannot be the primary determinant of moral choice, which must be grounded in universal rational principles.
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    To complete the notion of moral virtue we must consider the role reason plays in moral actions. Summing up at Book II.6, Aristotle says virtue is a disposition to choose, lying in the mean which is relative to us, determined by reason (1107a1). Since he is talking about choosing actions, he is focusing on the way moral virtue issues in actions. In turn, it is the role of practical wisdom (phronêsis) to determine choice. While moral virtues, virtues of character, belong to the part of the soul wh
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