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Techne

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Oct 20, 2026

PJ WehryHOST
44:41
And so how does the techne portion fit into this overall framework? So we do have the art of rhetoric at the end.
PJ WehryHOST
44:49
Is it that the good life will come to those with praxis and theoria, or that they will seek this out and it will kind of come as a result of it? Or that techne should be distrusted? Maybe I'm understanding you from earlier.
PJ WehryHOST
45:03
Techne should be distrusted because without these two, it's not good.
Robert BartlettGUEST
45:08
Right.
Robert BartlettGUEST
45:09
Well, you put your finger on actually a controversial point among people who study these things.
Stephen FryGUEST
25:21
... technical words are Greek technical.
Stephen FryGUEST
25:23
Techne is a Greek word, of course.
Stephen FryGUEST
25:25
And, um, uh, and I, I just think it's, [clears throat] it's really interesting.
Stephen FryGUEST
25:30
It gives, it's a sort of mirror or a microcosm of our class anxieties in Britain, that it's even there in the language you use straightaway, not just your accent and everything else that gives you away from, in terms of your education, your class, your outlook, your disposition, even your sexuality sometimes in the way you speak.
Adrian FagsanHOST
28:35
In Latin, it's ars, A-R-S, which is where art eventually comes from.
Adrian FagsanHOST
28:41
And in Greek, it's technē, T-E-C-H-N-E.
Adrian FagsanHOST
28:45
The last E has a bar across the top, so it can do some pull-ups.
Adrian FagsanHOST
28:49
Pronounce it however you see fit.

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