Abstract
Why was Aristotle interested in poetry? Modern readers have been always inclined to suppose that he meant to endorse certain kinds of rewards of dealing with mimetic stuff: paintings, plays, poems, sculptures, etc.- ‘art,’ for short. Thus, the Poetics has been praised (and even often debunked) as the rightful ancestor of Aesthetics, and as a philosophical account of how art makes us smarter, morally deeper, better persons. I will call this ‘injunctive Aristotelianism,’ and I shall attempt to break its spell by making a different kind of praise. I will praise the Poetics for its sheer philosophical merits. More specifically, I will draw attention to the explanatory continuum which is given intelligibility by the vocabulary of poietike techne.
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