%0 Journal Article %T A poi那tik那 techn那 como instrumento meta-filos車fico %A Brito %A Humberto %J Kriterion: Revista de Filosofia %D 2012 %I Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais %R 10.1590/S0100-512X2012000100003 %X i will argue that aristotle's inquiry into poi那tik那 techn那 should be taken as an inquiry into a meta-philosophical vocabulary. i claim that the main advantage of such a vocabulary is that of making explicit a conceptual contiguity between a number of problems concerning action theory, rationality, collective cognition, as well as that of affording indirect intelligibility to how human communities share dispositions. %K catharsis %K mimesis %K rationality %K action %K intelligibility. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-512X2012000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en