Art
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Lack of Art · art · arts · craft · craftsmen · technical skill
spoken of as
1 expressionthe arts“technai”1 mention
Republic (Greek)
But surely, Thrasymachus, the arts do hold rule and are stronger than that of which they are the arts.
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
The rational quality concerned with making things, that reasons truly toward production.
The class of things that admit of variation includes both things made and actions done.
Art, therefore, as has been said, is a rational quality, concerned with making, that reasons truly.
It follows that an art is the same thing as a rational quality, concerned with making, that reasons truly.
Aphorisms
The medical art or craft, described as long in comparison to the brevity of a human life.
Life is short, and Art long;
Republic
The general category of skilled crafts (medicine, piloting, shepherding, wage-earning) used analogically to determine whether rule exists for the ruler's or the ruled's benefit.
But surely, Thrasymachus, the arts do hold rule and are stronger than that of which they are the arts.
And does not each art also yield us benefit that is peculiar to itself and not general, as for example medicine health, the pilot’s art safety at sea, and the other arts similarly?
and by the same token you seem to suppose that the rulers in our cities, I mean the real rulers, differ at all in their thoughts of the governed from a man’s attitude towards his sheep or that they think of anything else night and day than the sources of their own profit.