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. 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.