The Fall of the Tektons

 

LOL I wonder what the tektons thought of the philosophers… 🤔

Through a detailed reading of the ancient Greek testimonies of the tectonic tradition, the paper demonstrates that in the Homeric tradition the tektones were hailed as versatile, first-rate craftsmen who created wonders out of matter, but in classical times they fell from their high status of old. In Plato’s writings tectonics ends up at the lower end of the epistemological and ontological scale.

Interesting paper on how the academe viewed technologists in Ancient Greece here.