Craft
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
al-ṣanāʼiʻ · al-ṣināʻah · crafts · glorious crafts · الصنائع · الصناعة
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Hymn 20 To Hephaestus (Greek)
With bright-eyed Athena he taught men glorious crafts throughout the world, —men who before used to dwell in caves in the mountains like wild beasts.
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Craft, defined as a practical cogitative habit realising composites from potency to act, whose excellence lies in prior thought rather than manual training.
On the crafts — The definition of a craft is that it is a thing holding fast in a practical, cogitative matter [30] by means of which man brings the kinds of composites from potency (*quwwah*) to act (*fiʻl*).
since man is not such that the affair of his life in this world can be set right save by the company of another of his own kind — for one man alone is incapable of undertaking all the affairs to which he is driven by necessity, of foods and drinks and garments, which are produced by the various crafts — it was necessary (1) that men gather [28] into villages and cities, so that the said mutual aid …
and though the training of the limbs assists in this matter, cogitation is greater and more powerful.
Hymn 20 To Hephaestus
Practical arts taught by the gods that distinguish civilized human life from primitive dwelling.
With bright-eyed Athena he taught men glorious crafts throughout the world, —men who before used to dwell in caves in the mountains like wild beasts.
But now that they have learned crafts through Hephaestus the famed worker, easily they live a peaceful life in their own houses the whole year round.