Chapter 10

What is Reciprocation?

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There is too the faculty of Judiciousness, and also its absence, in virtue of which we call men Judicious or the contrary.

Judiciousness is:

  • neither entirely identical with Knowledge or Opinion (for then all would have been Judicious).
  • not a specific science, as medical science whose object is wholesome things

The object of judiciousness is:

  • not always existent or immutable or by chance; but those in respect of which a man might doubt and deliberate.
  • the same Practical Wisdom

Yet judiciousness and wisdom are not identical

Practical Wisdom:

  • can command and take the initiative
  • its End is “what one should do or not do”

But Judiciousness:

  • only decides on suggestions
  • does not have Practical Wisdom
  • happens when a man uses his knowledge
  • employs the Opinionative faculty in judging things outside of Practical Wisdom

The faculty called γνώμη,[40] in right of which we call men εὐγνώμονες, or say they have γνώμη, is “the right judgment of the equitable man.”

A proof of which is that we most commonly say that the equitable man has a tendency to make allowance, and the making allowance in certain cases is equitable. And συγγνώμη (the word denoting allowance) is right γνώμη having a capacity of making equitable decisions, By “right” I mean that of the Truthful man.

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