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For Understanding
does not deal with the things that exist for ever and are immutable, nor yet with all of
the things that come into existence, but with those about which one may be in doubt and
may deliberate. Hence it is concerned with the same objects as Prudence. Understanding is
not however the same thing as Prudence; for Prudence issues commands, since its end is a
statement of what we ought to do or not to do, whereas Understanding merely makes
judgements. （For Understanding is the same as Good Understanding; a
‘man of understanding’ means a man of good
understanding.）1
1 This parenthesis would come better in the first section, after the words ‘of good understanding.’ It merely points out that the qualification ‘good’ need not be repeated.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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