258. Phronesis - Theory and Practice

What do Aristotle, Carl von Clausewitz, and John Dewey have in common? They’re all better reading than the news right now, and they all stress the importance of prudent action.

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Links for the Curious

• Action and Inquiry in Dewey’s Philosophy (Rogers, M. L., 2007) - http://www.jstor.org/stable/40321175
• Critical theory: selected essays (Horkheimer, M., 2002) -
• Experience and Nature (Dewey, J., 1958) - https://ddong.narod.ru/deweyen3/txt02.htm
• How We Think (Dewey, J., 1910) - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37423/37423-h/37423-h.htm
• Hume Texts Online (Hume, D., 1777) - https://davidhume.org/texts/e/1
• On war (Clausewitz, C. von, 1831) -
• One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Marcuse, H., 2013) - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203995211
• Performing phronesis: On the way to engaged judgment (Shotter, J. & Tsoukas, H., 2014) - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350507614541196
• Phronesis as professional knowledge: practical wisdom in the professions , 2012) -
• Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading (Long, C., 2014) - http://www.cambridge.org/9781107040359

• The Internet Classics Archive

  Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (Aristotle, 350AD) - https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.6.vi.html

• The later works, 1925-1953 (Dewey, J., 1981) - http://archive.org/details/johndewey15john
• Theses On Feuerbach by Karl Marx (Marx, K., 1845) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/index.htm

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