Conclusions and Discussions

This book asserts that phronesis and actions guided by phronesis have privileged access to the core of reality as is. This book rests mainly on two intellectual sources: Aristotle’s understanding of the concept, and the further developments the concept has experienced within — Macintyre (1984) — or in the vicinity — (Flyvbjerg, 2001, 2002, 2004; Nonaka and Toyama, 2007; Nonakaet al., 2008) — of the Aristotelian tradition. Izutsu’s (1971, 1983, 2011) theory of metaphysics. By way of conclusions, we will set out below the summary of our discussions carried out in the book and their implications in practice.