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University of J. E. Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem

Theory of Arts and Crafts

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: arts

University website: www.ujep.cz

Years of study: 3

Theory

A theory is a contemplative and rational type of abstract or generalizing thinking, or the results of such thinking. Depending on the context, the results might, for example, include generalized explanations of how nature works. The word has its roots in ancient Greek, but in modern use it has taken on several related meanings.

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Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. “Philosophy is the microscope of thought.” The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter, or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves, or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.

Walter Pater (1873), The Renaissance, Conclusion

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Practical life is not necessarily directed toward other people, as some think; and it is not the case that practical thoughts are only those which result from action for the sake of what ensues. On the contrary, much more practical are those mental activities and reflections which have their goal in themselves and take place for their own sake.

Aristotle, Politics, VII, 3, 8, 1325b16-20

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The final test of a theory is its capacity to solve the problems which originated it.

George Dantzig (1963) Linear Programming and Extensions, Princeton University Press, p. vii.

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