Practical science

What practical science is, Aristotle determines, on the one hand, according to the object and, on the other hand, according to the interest in knowledge (cf. Metaphysics VI, 1 ).

The practical science thematizes

• the changing realm of the human world,
• to achieve the good life, happiness , eudaimonia .

The practical science mainly includes the Aristotelian ethics with the writings Nicomachean Ethics , Eudemian Ethics and Politics .

See also

• Theoretical Science
• Poietic Science

literature

• Winfried Böhm : Theory and Practice: An Introduction to the Basic Pedagogical Problem. Königshausen & Neumann, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8260-4693-3 .