by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Interpretive Sensibility
Interpretive sensibility is a quality of tact. Tact consists in a certain perceptiveness and this perceptiveness depends on the sensitive ability of interpreting inner thoughts, understandings, feelings, and desires from indirect clues or evidence such as gestures,...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Pathic Intuitiveness
Pathic intuitiveness is a quality of tact. Intuitive practice is not “blind” or impulsive behavior. But at the same time, practice is intuitive when it is not mediated by something. Intuitive action is marked by a certain im-mediacy, just as intuitive understanding is...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Perceptiveness
Perceptivenessis a quality of tact. In general, tact implies sensitivity, a sensitive mindful perceptiveness. The dictionary defines tact as “a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense.” But the significance of...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Practice As Tact
Practice as tact: Tact is a particular sensitivity and sensitiveness to situations, and how to behave in them, but for which we cannot find any knowledge from general principles. Discussions on the relation between theory and practice (the translation of theoretical...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Situational Confidence
Situational confidence is a quality of tact. The interesting thing about tact is precisely that it is insensitive to traditional theory-practice distinctions. At the same time we know intuitively that tact must always remain receptive to the experiential and situated...
by admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Thoughtful Action
Thoughtful action is a quality of tact. Tact seems to be characterized by a moral intuitiveness. A tactful person somehow seems to sense what is the good or right thing to do. One may distinguish several types of tact. For example, pedagogical tact shares features...
