Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy
Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy by T. K. Johansen, published by Cambridge University Press on February 4, 2021, is a comprehensive exploration of how ancient philosophers conceptualized productive knowledge, or technê, and its implications across various fields such as ethics, rhetoric, politics, and cosmology. This edition spans 348 pages and is presented in English, offering insights into the debates surrounding technê from early thinkers like the Presocratics and Hippocratics to later figures such as Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists.
Readers will find a detailed examination of the ancient discourse on technê, with contributions from leading scholars across eleven chapters. The book delves into themes such as the role of ancient medicine in political theory, the parallels between Platonic and Aristotelian views, and the significance of technê in understanding virtue and practical rationality. It also addresses the relationship between technê and theoretical knowledge, as well as its adaptability across different skills, including philosophy. This scholarly work serves as a valuable resource for those interested in the historical and philosophical dimensions of ancient thought.
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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.
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