techne

Question 1

techne comes from an Indo and European stem that was approximately pronounced as _________ , and refers to “carpentry”

Answer 1

tekp

Question 2

In ancient greek, the stem appears in the word _______, This is carried in the word “architect and in the concept of “_______”.

Answer 2

tekton
tectonic

Question 3

But from tekton, we infer _____ , this refers to the skill of a carpenter or a master builder.
It refers to the art or skill of every kind involving the process of production.

Answer 3

techne

Question 4

word techne carries a two-fold meaning; on the one hand, it refers to ___________ , on the other hand, __________

Answer 4

“craftsmanship” and skill of any kind
ability to create a machine

Question 5

from techne, we can draw _________, which points to art of producing what is suited to the person’s art or skill..

Answer 5

technikon

Question 6

When understanding the Latin _________(the art of skilled production), the French technique, or the german technik, we recognize the development of the concept to refer to all actions and procedures pertaining and relating to the skill involved in the production of everything

Answer 6

technica ars

Question 7

In contemporary German, __________ refers to something broader. It involves everything that constitutes the means and modes of production that necessitates mastery in the highest sense in the practice of an art or skill

Answer 7

technik

Question 8

refined the understanding of techne and placed it in relation to the other concepts involving action and production.

Answer 8

Aristotle

Question 9

for him (____________) techne refers to that knowledge and ability that is concerned with production and construction.
it is in-between (________) the two poles of, on the one hand, mere know-how, _____, and , on the other hand, theoretical knowledge or _________.

Answer 9

Aristotle
mesotes
emperia
episteme

Question 10

techne is not theoretical knowledge or episteme because episteme is about __________ (math, philosophy) whereas techne is a type of knowledge that deals with ________ or process of becoming

Answer 10

immutable
mutable

Question 11

although building on empiriria, techne is not _________, which is dependent on what is in memory, and techne, which flows from the particular cases to a more universal concept.

Answer 11

experience

Question 12

experience can only provide the _______, whereas techne provide ____ (closer to episteme)

Answer 12

“that”
“why”

Question 13

another understanding of techne is the process by which _______.
This involves the process of _________.

Answer 13

things come to be
producing mutable realities

Question 14

an intermediate position between vital processes of nature

Answer 14

physis

Question 15

contingent process of _______ (or chance and coincidence

Answer 15

tychee

Question 16

part of understanding technology is an element of _____ or a playful ______ of elements in a methodological technique. Despite the role of chance in teche, nature _______ its activity more.

Answer 16

luck, consideration
directs

Question 17

in the greek understanding, ______ and ________ facilitates the agency of something in which things are realized

Answer 17

chance
nature

Question 18

the source of techne remains to be the _________, who initiates the production of goods and make possible the technical process

Answer 18

thinking soul

Question 19

when taking into consideration, therefore, techne and _______ (physis), we are concerned with the actualization in matter of form.

Answer 19

nature

Question 20

The form that comes in the end is a _________ of the application of thinking on matter.

Answer 20

consequence

Question 21

involved in the techne are the process of _______________.

Answer 21

evaluation, intervention, and construction

Question 22

techne involves a more complicated process than ___________ (even if it imitates or is analogous to physis in its natural process)

Answer 22

mere generation

Question 23

because of the similarity between techne and physis, it must be said that techne is the _________ to complete what is lacking in the nature; or that techne ______ that which nature does not have
This completion and perfection must, however, be understood in relation to human needs or even concerns or issue of utility; this variability is a variable as what humanity considers _____

Answer 23

human ability
perfects
useful

Question 24

techne (based on arising human needs) __________ to serve human purposes and push human goals

Answer 24

invents machines

Question 25

as it is understood by the early greek, _______ is a way of relating. On the one hand, it is related to the theoretical knowledge(________), On the other hand, it is related to the process of nature (_______)
with this relationships, techne is always already dependednt and never against theoretical knowledge on the one hand, and this level of mastery of nature on the other.

Answer 25

techne
episteme
physis

Question 26

because of the weaving technique with habit and skill, the greeks look at techne as a ______________ that is also tied to one’s humanity

Answer 26

very unique kind of knowledge

Question 27

men of technique

Answer 27

techniker

Question 28

For __________, only the craftsman is able to demonstrate a type of knowledge that is sound and specialized; in a way they are able to demonstrate their technical knowledge as absolute

Answer 28

Socrates

Question 29

The ________ were interested in humanity and our place in this world. It is this specific interest that leads to their interest in production whether homer speaks __________ forging the shield of Achilles, of Odysseus building his ship or Herodotus describing greek victories. Or in Prometheus, we read the narrative about fire that led us out of primitive existence into civilization.

Sophocles also gives testimony to a perilous mongrelism as described in the Antigone, where he speaks of the _______ (“terribleness,”monstrosity”) power which technique has placed into human hands techne

Answer 29

greeks, Hephaestus, deinotes

Question 30

techne turned humanity as ___________; but it has also set him/her in the path toward __________ ,. This explains the problematic in and of technique which confronts us today.
This demise lies at the twofold relation between ________ and the directing activity of _________. This leads us to recognize the possibilities and the limitations of techne, and opens to us a perspective from which our humanity becomes effective and efficient in the totality of things human through its correctly conceived use.

Answer 30

master of nature, good and evil
theoretical knowledge
nature