Editing Phronesis (section)

===Socrates===
In some of [[Socrates]]' dialogues, he proposes that {{transliteration|grc|phronēsis}} is a necessary condition for all virtue,<ref>{{multiref2
|1={{cite book|first=W. K. C.|last=Guthrie|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofgreekph0006guth|url-access=registration|title=A History of Greek Philosophy|volume=6: Aristotle, an Encounter|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofgreekph0006guth/page/348/mode/1up 348]|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1990|edition=revised|isbn=0521387604}}
|2={{cite book|first=Troels|last=Engberg-Pedersen|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=oj83D7aBgKMC&pg=PA236 236]|title=Aristotle's Theory of Moral Insight|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1983|orig-year=1983|isbn=0198246676}} }}</ref> and that to be good is to be an intelligent or reasonable person with intelligent and reasonable thoughts.<ref>{{cite book|first=Christopher P.|last=Long|title=The Ethics of Ontology: Rethinking an Aristotelian Legacy|url=https://archive.org/details/ethicsofontology0000long/mode/1up|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/ethicsofontology0000long/page/123/mode/1up 123)] |publisher=State University of New York Press|year=2004|isbn=079146119X}}</ref> In Plato's ''[[Meno]]'', Socrates writes that {{transliteration|grc|phronēsis}} is the most important attribute to learn, although it cannot be taught and is instead gained through the understanding of one's own self.<ref>{{cite book|first=Shaun|last=Gallagher|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=rnHarjbLwd0C&dq=Phronesis+Socrates&pg=PA197 197]–199|title=Hermeneutics and Education|chapter=Self-understanding and phronēsis|publisher=State University of New York Press|year=1992|isbn=0791411753}}</ref>