Phronêsis and Kalokagathia in Eudemian Ethics VIII.3

In Eudemian Ethics VIII.3, Aristotle treats a virtue that he calls kalokagathia, “nobility-and-goodness.” This appears to be quite important, and even identifies it with “perfect virtue” (EE 1249a17). makes puzzling the Nicomachean Ethics, text largely parallels does not discuss kalokagathia at all. I argue reason for this difference has do role intellectual practical wisdom (phronêsis) plays in these treatises. The argue, use of more expansive conception phronêsis than Ethics. Hence, work is done by Ethics—crucially, accounting unity virtues—is phronêsis.