Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy
The Concept of Technę
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 10 March 2022
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781108725279 |
| ISBN10: | 1108725279 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 330 pages |
| Size: | 228x150x18 mm |
| Weight: | 470 g |
| Language: | English |
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Short description:
Shows how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, the arts, politics and cosmology.
Long description:
This work investigates how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge or techn&&&234; and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, politics and cosmology. In eleven chapters leading scholars set out the ancient debates about techn&&&234; 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 techn&&&234;, the use of techn&&&234; as a paradigm for virtue and practical rationality, techn&&&234;&&&180;s determining role in Platonic conceptions of cosmology, techn&&&234;&&&180;s relationship to experience and theoretical knowledge, virtue as an 'art of living', the adaptability of the criteria of techn&&&234; to suit different skills, including philosophy itself, the use in productive knowledge of models, deliberation, conjecture and imagination.
'The book is well produced ... Johansen has skillfully assembled a rich collection of papers that can be read with benefit not only in its parts but also as a whole.' James L. Zainaldin, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
'The book is well produced ... Johansen has skillfully assembled a rich collection of papers that can be read with benefit not only in its parts but also as a whole.' James L. Zainaldin, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Protagoras on Political Techn&&&234; Edward Hussey; 2. Dynamic Modalities and Teleological Agency: Plato and Aristotle on Skill and Ability Tamer Nawar; 3. Techn&&&234; as a Model for Virtue in Plato Rachel Barney; 4. Crafting the Cosmos: Plato on the Limitations of Divine Craftsmanship Thomas Kjeller Johansen; 5. Aristotle on Productive Understanding and Completeness Ursula Coope; 6. Techn&&&234; and Empeiria: Aristotle on Practical Knowledge Robert Bolton; 7. The Stoics on Techn&&&234; and the Technai Voula Tsouna; 8. The Epicureans on Techn&&&234; and the Technai Voula Tsouna; 9. The Sceptic's Art: Varieties of Expertise in Sextus Empiricus Stefan Sienkiewicz; 10. Plotinus on the Arts Eyj&&&243;lfur Kjalar Emilsson; 11. Productive Knowledge in Proclus Jan Opsomer.
