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