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City State Foundations. A Study in Intellectual Method and the History of Political Thought.
Published by University Press of America. 18.10.1984., 1984
ISBN 10: 0819142328ISBN 13: 9780819142320
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
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Broschiert / Paperback. Condition: Gut. VII., 227 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Chapter I -- On the Nature of Reflective Discourse in Politics -- We lose the benefit of Aristotle's distinctions if we do not see that, for political reflection to remain a human science, it cannot be entirely theoretical. In Aristotle's view, if political science were entirely theoretical it would be a speculative discipline like physics, and not addressed to practice. Now, purely deductive or, else, Utopian political theorizing are often resorted to by political reasoners. But theory, in Aristotle, is for the sake of understanding alone. And so would Utopian thinking be, in an extension of Aristotle's distinctions. Political thought, in Aristotle, is addressed to practice and is therefore a practical kind of knowledge, just as poetics is addressed to the product and is a productive kind of knowledge (epistemS, technS, sophia). The reader will note that the latter two kinds of thinking are also knowledges for Aristotle. As Justus Buehler says, from within another system, "physics, history, and poetry are cognitive in different respects, not in different degrees" (ML 149). -- The trouble comes from the historical fact that, in using the Latin word "science" (from scio, I know), the West got into the habit of taking what Aristotle had called the theoretical knowledges (cosmology, mathematics, physics) as its model of "science" or knowledge. This meant that if it was not like cosmology, mathematics or physics, it was not "science." This equivocation is the ultimate source of the mistaken positivist insistence that the practical knowledges (e.g. politics, surgery) and the productive knowledges (e.g. poetics, business administration) must become fully theoretical before they can be knowledges or "science." -- Technai. plural of techng, should be translated as "arts and sciences," in Aristotle. Thus what we simply call an "art" is, for Aristotle, an "art-and-science" as in the art-and-science of architecture, the art-and-science of musical composition or the art-and-science of management. And all the technai in Aristotle are intellectual activities (Metaph. E.i.1025b, Nic. Eth. .1.iv), from poetry to history, from politics to piloting, from mechanics to medicine. ISBN 9780819142320 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 711.
