entertaining opposites) and epistemic modesty (e.g. unbiased/accurate thinking, looking through illusions, understanding your own limitations)." In the social sciences In After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre called for a phronetic social science. He points out that for every prediction made by a social scientific theory there are usually counter-examples. Hence the unpredictability of human beings and human life requires a focus on practical experiences. In his book Cognitive Capitalism, The psychologist Heiner Rindermann uses the term phronesis for describing a rational approach of thinking and action: "a circumspect and thoughtful way of life in a rational manner" (p. 188). Intelligence supports such a "burgher" lifestyle. See also Casuistry Common sense Dianoia Doctrine of the Mean Élan vital Rhetorical reason References Sources and further reading Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics trans. Terence Irwin (2nd edition; Hackett, 1999) Robert Bernasconi, “Heidegger’s Destruction of Phronesis,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 28 supp. (1989): 127–147. Clifford Geertz, Empowering_Aristotle "Empowering Aristotle". Science, vol. 293, July 6, 2001, p. 53. Martin Heidegger, Plato's Sophist (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997). Gerard J. Hughes, Aristotle on Ethics (Routledge, 2001) Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (Duckworth, 1985) William McNeill, The Glance of the Eye: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Ends of Theory (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999). Ikujiro Nonaka, Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2008). Amélie Oksenberg Rorty [ed.], Essays on Aristotle's Ethics (University of California Press, 1980) Richard Sorabji, "Aristotle on the Role of Intellect in Virtue" (Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 74, 1973–1974; pp. 107–129. Reprinted in Rorty) David Wiggins, "Deliberation and Practical Reason" (Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 76, 1975–1976; pp. 29–51. Reprinted in Rorty) Roberto Andorno, "Do our moral judgements need to be guided by principles?" Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2012, 21(4):457–465. External links Aristotelianism Concepts in ancient Greek ethics Intelligence Philosophy of Aristotle Virtue