φρόνησις (phronesis)
Short definition (LSJ): εως, ἡ, purpose, intention,
Full entry: Lexicon.
141 occurrences of this form in 43 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Nicomachean Ethics
- On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- Meno
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- Wisdom of Solomon
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- Laws
- Philebus
- On Fortune
- Phaedo
- Republic
- 4 Maccabees
- Metaphysics
- On Drunkenness
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better
- On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain
- Cratylus
- Letters
- Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs
- Sirach
- Discourses
- The Suppliants
- About the Planting of Noah
- On Fugitives
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain
- On the Confusion of Languages
- On the Migration of Abraham
- On the Posterity of Cain
- On the Unchangeableness of God
- On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
- On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
- To Prove that every Man who is virtuous is also free
- Alcibiades II
- Euthydemus
- Phaedrus
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- Memorabilia
Example passages
……τις εἴρηται καὶ εὐπραξία. φαίνεται δὲ καὶ τὰ ἐπιζητούμενα τὰ περὶ τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν ἅπανθʼ ὑπάρχειν τῷ λεχθέντι. τοῖς μὲν γὰρ ἀρετὴ τοῖς δὲ φρόνησις ἄλλοις δὲ σοφία τις εἶναι δοκεῖ,…
……ὁ δὲ ποταμὸς ὁ τέταρτος Εὐφράτης“ (Gen. 2,10 —14). διὰ τούτων βούλεται τὰς κατὰ μέρος ἀρετὰς ὑπογράφειν· εἰσὶ δὲ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τέτταρες, φρόνησις σωφροσύνη ἀνδρεία δικαιοσύνη. ὁ μὲν δὴ μέγιστος ποταμός, οὗ αἱ τέτταρες ἀπόρροιαι γεγόνασιν, ἡ γενική ἐστιν ἀρετή, ἣν ἀγαθότητα ὠνομάσαμεν, αἱ δὲ τέτταρες ἀπόρροιαι αἱ ἰσάριθμοι ἀρεταί.…
……εἰ δὲ ταῦτα ὀρθῶς λέγεται, ἀνάγκη αὐτὸ ἐν ζωῇ καὶ ἐν τελείᾳ ζωῇ εἶναι: ἢ ἐλλεῖπον οὐ μᾶλλον ὂν ἢ μὴ ὂν ἔσται. τοῦτο δὲ νοῦς καὶ πάντη φρόνησις. καὶ ὡρισμένον ἄρα καὶ πεπερασμένον καὶ τῇ δυνάμει οὐδὲν ὅ τι μὴ οὐδὲ τοσῇδε: ἐπιλείποι γὰρ ἄν. διὸ καὶ τὸ ἀεὶ καὶ τὸ ὡσαύτως καὶ τὸ ἄδεκτον παντὸς καὶ οὐδὲν εἰς αὐτό: εἰ γάρ τι δέχοιτο, παῤ αὑτὸ ἄν……