Practical wisdom, on the other hand, is concerned with things human and things about which it is possible to deliberate. Nobody deliberates about things that cannot be otherwise, or that are not means to an end, and that end a practical good. And the man who is good at deliberation generally is the one who can aim, by the help of his calculation, at the best of the goods attainable by man. A wise person applies reason in deliberating about choices to obtain the goods best for him. Of the wisdom concerned with the city, the practical wisdom which plays a controlling part is legislative wisdom, while that which is related to this as particulars to their universal is known by the general name 'political wisdom'.
Political wisdom concerns the particulars of legislative wisdom .
Excellence in deliberation in the unqualified sense is that which succeeds with reference to what is the end in the unqualified sense, and excellence in deliberation in a particular sense is that which succeeds relatively to a particular end. If, then, it is characteristic of men of practical wisdom to have deliberated well, excellence in deliberation will be correctness with regard to what conduces to the end which practical wisdom apprehends truly. Practical wisdom excels in deliberation about the means and the end . What is called judgement, in virtue of which we say that people are considerate and have sympathetic judgement, is the faculty of judging correctly what is equitable. A sign of this is our saying that the decent person more than others is considerate, and that it is decent to be considerate about some things.