Getting it Right: How Practical Judgment Can Help You Make Good Decisions

by Holly L. Wilson

This book will help the reader learn the skill of practical judgment for the sake of making the right judgment, in the right way, at the right time, and for the right reason. In other words, it will help the reader "Get it Right." The book uses philosophy, religion, science, wisdom and proverb traditions and experience to help the reader to understand and make use of practical judgment a skill akin to prudence. This book reviews a long tradition of book on prudence that includes Gracian's book on Worldly Wisdom, Marcus Aurelius' , and Epictetus' Enchieridion, as Meditationswell as newer theories of prudence in Immanuel Kant. Immanuel Kant's theories of morality and practical judgment play a large role in this book. It will remind readers of the meaning of proverbs and wisdom literature in both Eastern and Western contexts. The reader will find fresh new perspectives here as well as time tested wisdom. The short chapters will make it easy to read one a day and benefit from it.

344 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 15, 2016