Ancient techne requires us to put aside much of our common wisdom about science and technology. The Greeks most likely did not have a conception of technology. While more recognizable forms of science and engineering developed in Egypt and the East, intellectual speculation in Greece was qualitatively different. What was understood to be pure science, or episteme, in Greece was highly deductive and, by definition, not the kind of knowledge to be applied to everyday life. Techne defines itself, against physis (nature), Automaton(spontaneity), Tyche(chance), all of which can encourage or constrain invention.
Overall, this is what the chapter explores on various philosophical and scientific levels.To try and define this whole chapter would be an argument within an argument. “What is Techne: An art or Science?”
BOTH in my opinion, what fuels Techne at the time in which it is being produced, plays a role in its outcome of perception. Factors that play into this concept include: time, place, oppurtunity, and perception. Thus resulting in Art and technology overlapping each other in various catergories.
Ex: Ancient Medicine back then was considered an art, whereas today it is seen more as a form of technology.
In this day in age I feel like the lines are disappearing between what is art and what is science. For example the creation of an iPod, is it an art or piece of technology.
Short, simple, sweet, and to the point.
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