Back to the Rough Ground : Practical Judgement and the Lure of Technique: Experiments in Truth and Religion

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Copyright: 10/1/1997

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Foreword to the Paperback Edition

xiii

(2)

Alasdair MacIntyre

Preface

Introduction

(30)

1. Generative Context of the Study and Its Central Issue

(7)

2. The Company of Philosophers

(12)

3. Conversation as a Mode of Philosophical Inquiry

(11)

PART 1: THE RETRIEVAL OF PHRONESIS AND TECHNE IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY

(206)

A. Specific Domains: Religion, Art, and Politics

(73)

1. J.H. Newman's Appeal to Phronesis in A Grammar of Assent

(24)

1. Newman's Critique of Rationalism: Preliminary Remarks

(2)

2. Newman and Aristotle

(5)

3. Newman and Contemporary Philosophy

(7)

4. `Incommensurability' in Philosophy of Science, Aristotelian Scholarship, and the Grammar

(5)

5. Conclusion: Newman on Language

(5)

2. R. G. Collingwood's Critique of Techne in The Principles of Art

(33)

1. `The Technical Theory of Art'

(5)

2. `Imaginative Expression'

(4)

3. Expression and Language

(5)

4. Aesthetics and Ethics: Collingwood and Aristotle

(6)

5. Collingwood's Subjectivism and Anti-Individualism

(6)

6. Intersubjectivity and Language: What Collingwood Is `Trying to Say'

(7)

3. Hannah Arendt's Distinction between Action and Making in The Human Condition

(16)

1. Action and Behavior

(2)

2. Uncertain Stories and the Limits of Practical Knowledge

(2)

3. Tyranny and the Flight from Action into Making

(4)

4. Promising, Forgiving, and the Condition of Plurality

(3)

5. Arendt and Aristotle

100

(4)

B. The Universal Scope of Philosophical Hermeneutics

104

(64)

4. The Play of Phronesis and Techne in Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method

104

(34)

1. Nineteenth-Century Hermeneutics

106

(3)

2. The Heideggerian Background

109

(1)

3. Finitude, Tradition, and the Hermeneutical Circle

110

(7)

4. Conversation as the Medium of `Effective-Historical Consciousness'

117

(4)

5. The `Fusion of Horizons' in the Act of `Application'

121

(2)

6. Aristotle as Mentor: The Centrality of the Appeal to Phronesis

123

(5)

7. Gadamer's Account of Experience, in Relation to Aristotle

128

(4)

8. Experience as Being-in-Play

132

(6)

5. Language, Hermeneutics, and Practical Philosophy

138

(30)

1. The Unity of Thought and Language

138

(6)

2. Finitude and the `Infinity' of Language

144

(3)

3. Limitations of the `Statement' and the Synthesis of Hermeneutical Ideas in Reflection on Language

147

(5)

4. Beyond `Substance Metaphysics': Reflection on Language as a Way of Profiling Techne and Phronesis

152

(4)

5. Theory and Practice: The Extent of Gadamer's Appeal to Aristotelian Practical Philosophy and Phronesis

156

(8)

6. The Scope of Gadamer's Thought: Concluding Questions

164

(4)

C. The Challenge of Critical Theory

168

(69)

6. The Distinction between Praxis and Technique in the Early Philosophy of Jurgen Habermas

168

(25)

1. Situating Habermas

168

(5)

2. The Aristotelian Background

173

(4)

3. Praxis Mediated through Modern Thought

177

(5)

4. Habermas and Hermeneutics

182

(4)

5. The Modern Loss of the Distinction between Praxis and Technique

186

(7)

7. Habermas's Later Philosophy: Ambiguities of Rationalization

193

(34)

1. Critique and Praxis: The Shift to the Notion of Communicative Action

193

(5)

2. The `Uncoupling of System and Life-World': Progress and Deformation

198

(3)

3. Habermas's Defense of the `Rationalization of the Life-World': Technicism in a New Guise?

201

(8)

4. The Life-World and the Limits of Rationalization: The Shadow Side of Habermas's Thought

209

(7)

5. Conclusion: Aporiai in Habermas's Thought and the Point of a Return to Aristotle

216

(11)

Interlude

227

(10)

PART 2: PHRONESIS AND TECHNE IN ARISTOTLE

237

(120)

8. Theory, Techne, and Phronesis: Distinctions and Relations

237

(38)

1. Aristotle's Conception of `Theory'

237

(2)

2. The Primacy of Theory and the Questionable Status of Practice

239

(5)

3. The Place of Techne and Phronesis, and of the Distinction between Them, in Aristotle's Writings

244

(5)

4. Aristotle's `Official' Concept of Techne: Its Essential Reference to Fabrication and Its Closeness to Theory

249

(4)

5. Technai of the Kairos and Their Affinity with Phronesis

253

(8)

6. The Distinction between Techne Poietike and Phronesis

261

(8)

7. Meeting Two Difficulties That Stem from Aristotle's Usage

269

(6)

9. The Circle between Knowledge and Virtuous Character: Phronesis as a Form of Experience

275

(40)

1. Aristotle's Reserve about the Role of Knowledge in Virtue: The Emergence of a Circle between Phronesis and Character

275

(4)

2. The Key to Understanding the Circle Is `Experience'

279

(2)

3. Interlude: The Nonassimilation of `Experience' Raises Questions about Techne in Metaphysics 1.1

281

(4)

4. The Appeal to Experience in Nicomachean Ethics 10.9 and 1.3

285

(5)

5. Phronesis and Character as Modalities of Experience

290

(5)

6. Nous, or Perceptiveness with Regard to `Ultimate Particulars,' as a Crucial Element in Phronesis

295

(5)

7. Suggested Examples of `Ultimate Particulars' Elucidated by Reference to De Anima and Wittgenstein

300

(4)

8. The Openness of the Phronetic Approach, and How It Differs from Deductivism

304

(6)

9. The Relationship between Universals and Particulars in the Sphere of Phronesis and Eupraxia

310

(5)

10. Beyond the `Official' Notion of Techne: Recovering the Experiential Background

315

(42)

1. Aristotle's Failure to Distinguish between Techne as an Ability to Analyze and Techne as an Ability to Make

315

(4)

2. Evidence of Two Different Tendencies in Aristotle's Treatment of Techne

319

(7)

3. Aristotle's Neglect of the Role of Experience in Techne Related to His Characteristic Approach to Genesis

326

(3)

4. The Role of Matter in Aristotle's Thought Supports an Emphasis on Experience

329

(5)

5. Implications of the Analogy between Techne and Nature

334

(4)

6. Implications for `Techne' of Aristotle's Account of Change

338

(5)

7. Aristotle's Account of `Soul' Supports a Conception of Techne as Embodied

343

(7)

8. `Deliberation' Reconsidered, and Conclusion

350

(7)

Epilogue

357

(26)

1. The Main Themes

357

(7)

2. Import for Practices

364

(7)

3. Bearings in Philosophy

371

(12)

Notes

383

(86)

Bibliography to Introduction and Part 1

469

(8)

Bibliography to Part 2 and Epilogue

477

(8)

Index

485

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