Craftsmen
group · 4 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
a carpenter · a class for the trades · an architect · architect · carpenters · cobblers · craftsmen · demiourgoi · doctor · physicians
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
The artisan class, named among the specialized occupations and assigned beneficence in the royal fourfold scheme.
the farmers attend to their fields, the craftsmen busy themselves with their crafts, and the merchants apply themselves wholly to their trades.
Constitution of the Athenians
One of the citizen classes set apart by Theseus and later described as one of the two broad divisions of the Athenian multitude, valued for numerical strength.
Aristotle says that, the whole multitude at Athens being divided into farmers and craftsmen, their tribes were four, and of each of the tribes there were three parts, which they call thirds and brotherhoods, and of each of these there were thirty clans, and each clan was composed of thirty men.
In old times the multitude of the Athenians, before Cleisthenes arranged the matters concerning the tribes, was divided into farmers and craftsmen.
rather he was the first to set apart separately the eupatrids and the farmers and the craftsmen, and assigning to the eupatrids the knowledge of divine things and the providing of the magistrates and the being teachers of the laws and expounders of sacred and holy things, he established the other citizens, as it were, on an equal footing—the eupatrids being thought to excel in reputation, the farm …
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Blacksmiths, carpenters and architects, invoked both as the makers in the design analogy and as the ordinary tradesmen to whom the diviners are reduced.
and they are nothing but the practitioners of a craft, like the blacksmiths and the carpenters and others, and our ignorance of their craft does not support their claim — such as their pretence that they are in league with the Knower of all hidden things, and that it is He who inspires them with this knowledge by means of the angels or the devils, according to the compact between them and Him.
for if he were asked how this is so, he would answer that he has seen the ship indicate a carpenter and the building an architect.
Memorabilia
Manual and technical specialists used in Socratic analogies about teachable knowledge and works.
Men of Athens, I have never yet studied medicine, nor sought to find a teacher among our physicians;
he was saying that if you want to have a man taught cobbling or building or smithing or riding, you know where to send him to learn the craft:
And have just men, like carpenters, their works?