Aristotle's Practical Particularism
Robert B. Louden
In Anton and Preus, eds., Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy IV: Aristotle's Ethics
SUNY Press, 1991

"Aristotle does note in several places that phronesis is much more than a life experience that correctly grasps particulars. It is, in addition, an architectonic knowledge of the good life for individuals as well as for households and communities, and is described at the beginning of the EN as 'the most authoritative [kuriotates) and most comprehensive [architektonikes]' science (1094a26-27; for VI.8). This organizing knowledge of the good life is something which the mere man of experience lacks." (LOUDEN, p. 172) [PSA: these aspects are part of providing an account for the way one lives, i.e., acting 'meta logou'.]

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