Practical wisdom, then, must be a reasoned and true state of capacity to act with regard to human goods. Plainly, then, practical wisdom is a virtue and not an art. Practical wisdom is a virtue . It follows that the first principles of scientific truths cannot be grasped either by by science or by art or by prudence. Nor are these first principles the objects of philosophic wisdom.
First principles are products of intuitive reason .
Wisdom must plainly be the most finished of the forms of knowledge. It follows that the wise man must not only know what follows from the first principles, but must also possess truth about the first principles. Therefore wisdom must be intuitive reason combined with scientific knowledge. Wisdom is intuitive reason combined with scientific knowledge . Philosophic wisdom is scientific knowledge, combined with intuitive reason, of the things that are highest by nature.