The word was used in Greek philosophy, and such discussions are still influential today. In Aristotelian ethics, for example in the "Nicomachean Ethics", it is distinguished from other words for wisdom and intellectual virtues – such as "episteme" and "techne". Because of its practical character, when it is not simply translated by words meaning wisdom or intelligence, it is often translated as "practical wisdom", and sometimes (more traditionally) as "prudence", from Latin . Thomas McEvilley has proposed that the best translation is "mindfulness".