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So that, as in the case of the Opinionative faculty, there are

two forms, Cleverness and Practical Wisdom; so also in the case

of the Moral there are two, Natural Virtue and Matured; and of

these the latter cannot be formed without Practical Wisdom.[58]

This leads some to say that all the Virtues are merely

intellectual Practical Wisdom, and Socrates was partly right in

his enquiry and partly wrong: wrong in that he thought all the

Virtues were merely intellectual Practical Wisdom, right in

saying they were not independent of that faculty.