Entre théorie et pratique. Aristote et le strabisme de la techne

The Aristotelian reflection on the epistemological status of techne, andmore specifically on the definition of rhetoric as a techne, can help us to rethink thevery actual cleavage between theory and practice. A good techne, as the rhetoric hasto be according to Aristotle, has not to choose between theory and practice, betweenthe universal and the particular, but should be able to look simultaneously in bothdirections and to keep them together. We will try to show that may be worth torediscover and to introduce the Aristotelian notion of techne into the contemporaryepistemological and philosophical debate.