Fronésis a problém zvažování

The paper analyzes the Aristotelian concept of phronesis especially with regard to the political context that shapes certain aspects of this conception. After a general presentation of the role played by phronesis in individual and communal life, the performance of phronesis is further specified in connection with defining the field for deliberation (bouleusis). On this issue, the paper discusses not only the nature of possible objects of deliberation and the mechanisms of the deliberative process, but also possibly deficient forms of bouleusis. The ethical and political implications of different forms of deficient bouleusis are at the same time related to the political analysis of fundamental relationships within the structure of governance. The paper examines in detail the problematic bouleusis in the case of women and, in its final part, raises the question of to what extent Aristotle’s intention – in his analysis of phronesis and the associated concept bouleusis with men and their ethical, or rather political, virtue in mind – allows one to approach a more universal view of human phronesis.