This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient philosopher Aristotle's work of moral theory, the Nicomachean Ethics.

Specifically it focuses focuses on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics book 6, and examines his discussion of the intellectual virtue of Techne, which can be translated as "craft", "art", "skill" or "productive knowledge".

Techne is an intellectual habitus or hexis through which a person is able to produce something in a deliberate manner. For this reason, Aristotle says that it bears upon contingent rather than necessary matters, and in fact upon matters that chance could also bear upon.

The person who is a skilled technician is also able to deliberately produce poor performance or products, as well as good.

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