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Each of these activities is associated with the word technê, e.g., medicine with the iatrikê technê.

Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007

Socrates says that some of the sub-skills of generalship ” which elsewhere he calls a technê ” come by nature and others come through knowledge (epistêmê) (III. i.6-7).

Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007

Second, in using mathematical thinking as an analogue for dialectic, Socrates is still relying on the notion of technê since both geometry and calculation are technai.

Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007

Without this division there is no basis for a distinction between epistêmê as an intellectual virtue and reason as exercising a kind of technê with respect to some non-rational element.

Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007

(SVF, i.e. Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta, I 323) and Chrysippus says that practical judgment (phronêsis) is a kind of technê concerning the things having to do with life (SVF II 909).

Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007

In fact, that dialectic is compared to a kind of technê strongly suggests that there is a distinction between theoretical and practical technai.

Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007

Republic, where Socrates characterizes ruling as a kind of technê that looks out after the welfare of the city

Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007

Picking up another theme in Plato's dialogues, the Stoics develop the idea that virtue is a kind of technê or craft of life, one that is based on an understanding of the universe.

Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007

Plato ” whose theory of forms seems an arch example of pure theoretical knowledge ” nevertheless is fascinated by the idea of a kind of technê that is informed by knowledge of forms.

Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007

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