The civil service is to be allowed to find out what job applicants’ ‘socio-economic background’ is. What abject drivel is this?
Among all the different sorts of wisdom that Aristotle discussed, ‘practical wisdom’ was to the fore. It was for him neither a science nor an art, but ‘a reasoned ability to act with regard to the things that are good and bad for men’.
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