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In Ancient Greek philosophy, techne (Greek: τέχνη, romanized: tékhnē, lit. 'art, skill, craft'; Ancient Greek : [tékʰnɛː] , Modern Greek : [ˈtexni] ) is a philosophical concept that refers to making or doing. [ 1 ]
Oct 11, 2019 · As an actors’ category ‘technology’ is of surprisingly recent vintage, although cognate terms – techne, arts, and so on – have a much longer history. Yet even for a recent English word ‘technology’ has come to embrace often conflicting meanings. In this essay review I have three aims.
- Jon Agar
- 2020
Apr 11, 2003 · Epistêmê is the Greek word most often translated as knowledge, while technê is translated as either craft or art. These translations, however, may inappropriately harbor some of our contemporary assumptions about the relation between theory (the domain of ‘knowledge’) and practice (the concern of ‘craft’ or ‘art’).
The philosophy of technology is a sub-field of philosophy that studies the nature of technology and its social effects. Philosophical discussion of questions relating to technology (or its Greek ancestor techne) dates back to the very dawn of Western philosophy. [1]
Sep 10, 2024 · History of technology, the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek techne, ‘art, craft,’ with logos, ‘word, speech,’ meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both fine and applied.
Feb 20, 2009 · Only recently a branch of the philosophy of technology has developed that is concerned with technology itself and that aims to understand both the practice of designing and creating artifacts (in a wide sense, including artificial processes and systems) and the nature of the things so created.
The terms “technique” and “technology” have their roots in the ancient Greek notion of “ techne ” (art, or craft-knowledge), that is, the body of knowledge associated with a particular practice of making (cf. Parry, 2008).
