Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of TechniqueBack to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the kind of knowledge that informs good practice in a range of disciplines such as education, psychotherapy, medicine, management, and law. Through reflection on key modern thinkers who have revived cardinal insights of Aristotle, and a sustained engagement with the Philosopher himself, it presents a radical challenge to the scientistic assumptions that have dominated how these professional domains have been conceived, practiced, and institutionalized. |
Contents
Hannah Arendts Distinction between Action and Making in The Human Condition | |
B The Universal Scope of Philosophical Hermeneutics | |
Language Hermeneutics and Practical Philosophy | |
The Appeal to Experience in Nicomachean Ethics 10 9 and 1 3 | |
Phronesis and Character as Modalities of Experience | |
Nous or Perceptiveness with Regard to Ultimate Particulars as a Crucial Element | |
in Phronesis 7 Suggested Examples of Ultimate Particulars Elucidated by Reference to De Anima and Wittgenstein | |
The Openness of the Phronetic Approach and How It Differs from Deductivism | |
The Relationship between Universals and Particulars in the Sphere of Phronesis and Eupraxia | |
Recovering the Experiential Background 1 Aristotles Failure to Distinguish between Techne as an Ability to Analyze and Techne as an Ability to Make | |
Evidence of Two Different Tendencies in Aristotles Treatment of Techne | |
Reflection on Language | |
The Challenge of Critical Theory | |
Praxis Mediated through Modern Thought | |
Habermas and Hermeneutics | |
Ambiguities of Rationalization | |
Interlude | |
PHRONESIS AND TECHNE IN ARISTOTLE | |
The Primacy of Theory and the Questionable Status of Practice | |
The Place of Techne and Phronesis and of the Distinction between Them in Aristotles Writings | |
Its Essential Reference to Fabrication and Its Closeness to Theory | |
Phronesis as a Form of Experience 1 Aristotles Reserve about the Role of Knowledge in Virtue The Emergence of a Circle between Phronesis and Ch... | |
The Key to Understanding the Circle Is Experience | |
The Nonassimilation of Experience Raises Questions about Techne in Metaphysics 1 1 | |
Aristotles Neglect of the Role of Experience in Techne Related to His Characteristic Approach to Genesis | |
The Role of Matter in Aristotles Thought Supports an Emphasis on Experience | |
Implications of the Analogy between Techne and Nature | |
Implications for Techne of Aristotles Account of Change | |
Aristotles Account of Soul Supports a Conception of Techne as Embodied | |
Deliberation Reconsidered and Conclusion | |
The Main Themes | |
Import for Practices | |
Bearings in Philosophy | |
Notes | |
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Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique Joseph Dunne No preview available - 1997 |
Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique Joseph Dunne No preview available - 2016 |
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