Phronesis and Phantasia: Teaching with Wisdom and Imagination |
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| Authors: | Jana Noel |
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| Institution: | Department of Education, Montana State University, 213 Reid Hall, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA |
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| Abstract: | Critics of Aristotelian accounts of practical reasoning, in teaching and in other contexts, criticise phronesis for its rigidity and lack of imagination. This paper argues that phantasia , or imagination, helps us to develop a richer account of Aristotle's phronesis . Two senses of phantasia , as producing images and as an interpretive faculty, are proposed here to be importantly involved in phronesis . By producing images that help in the selection of an end goal, and by having an interpretive faculty that helps to compare competing possibilities, phantasia plays a crucial role in the practical reasoning process of phronesis . |
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