And, so neither things which exist or come into being necessarily, nor things in the way of nature, come under the province of Art, because these are self-originating. And since Making and Doing are distinct, Art must be concerned with the former and not the latter. And in a certain sense Art and Fortune are concerned with the same things, as, Agathon says by the way,
“Art Fortune loves, and is of her beloved.”
So Art, as has been stated, is “a certain state of mind, apt to Make, conjoined with true Reason;” its absence, on the contrary, is the same state conjoined with false Reason, and both are employed upon Contingent matter.
Chapter V.
As for Practical Wisdom, we shall ascertain its nature by examining to what kind of persons we in common language ascribe it.139
It is thought then to be the property of the Practically Wise man to be able to deliberate well respecting what is good and expedient for himself, not in