Both kinds of reasoning seem to meet the requirements of practical reason, διάνοια πρακτική. Practical reason is evoked in a number of passages from Ethics, De anima, Metaphysics, and Politics. In Eth. eud. (1216b35–1217a10) it is significantly described as “architectonic” thinking. This means that practical reason does not freely speculate on any subject, but thinks with a view to an end, which represents the aim of all the stages of the reasoning process.
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They desire in act just the ultimate end, the common good, and consider the ends for the sake of which they prescribe as the intermediate stages and instrumental conditions in view of the ultimate end.
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