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Phronesis vs Phrenesis - What's the difference?

phronesis | phrenesis |

As nouns the difference between phronesis and phrenesis

is that phronesis is the virtue of "practical wisdom" as posited by Aristotle while phrenesis is phrenitis.

phronesis

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Noun

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  • (philosophy) The virtue of "practical wisdom" as posited by Aristotle.

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    phrenesis

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    Noun

    (phreneses)
  • (obsolete, medicine) phrenitis
  • madness, frenzy

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    * "Before the Armada, the Army of Flanders had experienced its share of mutinies or 'furies'--as the ravages of licentious soldiery were called when the phrenesis of indiscipline came over them" - Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe, The Spanish Armada, the Experience of War in 1588, (Oxford, 1988).

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