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Author : Tom Angier
Release : 2010-01-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 715/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Techne in Aristotle's Ethics by : Tom Angier
Download or read book Techne in Aristotle's Ethics written by Tom Angier. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues for the importance of the concept of 'techne' in constructing a new understanding of Aristotle's moral philosophy.
Author : Tom Angier
Release : 2010-12-02
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 719/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Techne in Aristotle's Ethics by : Tom Angier
Download or read book Techne in Aristotle's Ethics written by Tom Angier. This book was released on 2010-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of Aristotle's Ethics, this book argues for the central importance of the concept of 'techne' or 'craft' in Aristotle's moral theory. Exploring the importance of 'techne' in the Platonic and pre-Platonic intellectual context in which Aristotle was writing, Tom Angier here shows that this concept has an important role in Aristotle's Ethics that has rarely been studied in Anglo-American scholarship. Through close-analysis of the primary texts, this book uses the focus on 'techne' to systematically critique and renew Aristotelian moral philosophy. Techne in Aristotle's 'Ethics' provides a novel and challenging approach to one of the Ancient World's most enduring intellectual legacies.
Author : Tom P. S. Angier
Release : 2010
Genre : Ethics, Ancient
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 035/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Technē in Aristotle's Ethics by : Tom P. S. Angier
Download or read book Technē in Aristotle's Ethics written by Tom P. S. Angier. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of Aristotle's Ethics, this book argues for the central importance of the concept of 'techne' or 'craft' in Aristotle's moral theory. Exploring the importance of 'techne' in the Platonic and pre-Platonic intellectual context in which Aristotle was writing, Tom Angier here shows that this concept has an important role in Aristotle's Ethics that has rarely been studied in Anglo-American scholarship. Through close-analysis of the primary texts, this book uses the focus on 'techne' to systematically critique and renew Aristotelian moral philosophy. Techne in Aristotle's 'Ethics' pro.
Author : Thomas Kjeller Johansen
Release : 2021-02-04
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 154/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy by : Thomas Kjeller Johansen
Download or read book Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy written by Thomas Kjeller Johansen. This book was released on 2021-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work investigates how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge or technê and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, politics and cosmology. In eleven chapters leading scholars set out the ancient debates about technê from the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers, through Plato and Aristotle and the Hellenistic age (Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics), ending in the Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus. Amongst the many themes that come into focus are: the model status of ancient medicine in defining the political art, the similarities between the Platonic and Aristotelian conceptions of technê, the use of technê as a paradigm for virtue and practical rationality, technê ́s determining role in Platonic conceptions of cosmology, technê ́s relationship to experience and theoretical knowledge, virtue as an 'art of living', the adaptability of the criteria of technê to suit different skills, including philosophy itself, the use in productive knowledge of models, deliberation, conjecture and imagination.
Author : Eric Schatzberg
Release : 2018-11-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 97X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Technology by : Eric Schatzberg
Download or read book Technology written by Eric Schatzberg. This book was released on 2018-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everything from steelmaking to singing. In Technology: Critical History of a Concept, Eric Schatzberg explains why technology is so difficult to define by examining its three thousand year history, one shaped by persistent tensions between scholars and technical practitioners. Since the time of the ancient Greeks, scholars have tended to hold technicians in low esteem, defining technical practices as mere means toward ends defined by others. Technicians, in contrast, have repeatedly pushed back against this characterization, insisting on the dignity, creativity, and cultural worth of their work. The tension between scholars and technicians continued from Aristotle through Francis Bacon and into the nineteenth century. It was only in the twentieth century that modern meanings of technology arose: technology as the industrial arts, technology as applied science, and technology as technique. Schatzberg traces these three meanings to the present day, when discourse about technology has become pervasive, but confusion among the three principal meanings of technology remains common. He shows that only through a humanistic concept of technology can we understand the complex human choices embedded in our modern world.
