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Further: πολιτικὴ and Practical Wisdom are the same mental state,

but the point of view is not the same.

Of Practical Wisdom exerted upon a community that which I would

call the Supreme is the faculty of Legislation; the subordinate,

which is concerned with the details, generally has the common

name πολιτικὴ, and its functions are Action and Deliberation (for

the particular enactment is a matter of action, being the

ultimate issue of this branch of Practical Wisdom, and therefore

people commonly say, that these men alone are really engaged in

government, because they alone act, filling the same place

relatively to legislators, that workmen do to a master).[27]