Aristotle's Concept of Prudence
Tue, Sep 08
|3206 Fairfax Walk
Join Dr. Erik Dempsey for a three-week seminar series that will cover Aristotle's understanding of phronesis--what allows us to make good judgments about life as a whole.
Time & Location
Sep 08, 2020, 7:00 PM – Sep 22, 2020, 8:30 PM
3206 Fairfax Walk, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA
About The Event
***In-person attendees are invited to arrive at 6:30p. We will begin our program at 7:00p sharp for virtual attendees***
***Registration for this event is full. We welcome you to RSVP if you would like to be put onto our waitlist.***
For Aristotle, prudence, or phronesis in Greek, means good judgment about life as a whole. This idea of prudence is intimately tied to the idea of moral virtue, since for him, the good life is the virtuous life. In this seminar, we'll do a careful reading of select passages from the Nicomachean Ethics, and examine how Aristotle's prudent person makes judgments about how to act rightly, and decides which goods are worth choosing. In the last meeting, we'll compare Aristotle's idea of prudence to Niccolo Machiavelli's.
About our scholar:
Dr. Erik Dempsey,
Lecturer and Assistant Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas
