PHILOS 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Techne, Body Politic, Vladimir Putin
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Oratory as know how, justice as knowing that . Since oratory is one of those crafts which mostly uses speech, and since there are others of this sort, try to say what it is that oratory, which exercises influence through speeches, is about (7) A knack : through routine and knack it merely preserves the memory of what customarily happens, and that"s also how it supplies its pleasures (78) Concerned with pleasure, to which the whole of its service is entirely devoted, proceeds toward its object quite inexpertly, without having at all considered either the nature of the pleasure or its cause. It does so completely irrationally, with virtually no discrimination. (78) It has no account of the nature of whatever things it applies by which it applies them, so that it is unable to state the cause of each thing. (25)
