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Practical Knowledge (Paperback)
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Yves R. Simon (1903-1961) was one of this century's greatest
students of the virtue of practical wisdom. Simon's interest in
this virtue ranged from ultimate theoretical and foundational
concerns, such as the relationship between practical knowledge and
science, to the most concrete and immediate questions regarding the
role of practical wisdom in personal and social decision-making.
These concerns occupied Simon from his earliest published writing
to the final notes and correspondence he was working on at the
moment of his untimely death. Throughout his life, practical wisdom
and its related philosophical ramifications emerge time and again
at critical junctures, throwing into bold relief some of the deeper
dimensions of questions as diverse as the nature of democracy, the
concept of law, and the theory of work. Practical knowledge
constitutes a unifying motif of Simon's entire encyclopedic effort.
This volume reconstructs what would have been Simon's final
sustained writing on practical knowledge. It includes reworking of
some previously published material, especially the landmark 1961
essay, "Introduction to the Study of Practical Wisdom," possibly
the best treatment of the concept of "command" in recent
philosophical writing. But it also reproduces, in a form closely
corresponding to Simon's intention, material drawn from notes and
schemata, concerning issues such as the relationship between moral
science and wisdom, the nature of practical judgment, and the
relationship between practical knowledge and Christian moral
philosophy. Also included are previously unpublished letters to
Jacques Maritain on the controversy surrounding the
theoretical-practical and practico-practical syllogisms, as well as
Maritain's responses. The volume concludes with applications of
Simon's general theory to a critique of the concept of a social
science and to the notion of Christian humanism. This volume will
appeal to moral philosophers interested in a range of normative
issues, as well as social scientists and readers concerned with the
philosophical foundations of modern culture. Virtue moralist, in
particular, will find in Simon one of the profoundest commentators
on this tradition in normative ethics.
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