Techne and Organism

The experience of Techne--know-how, skilled activity, behavior in accordance with some formula--is familiar in everyday life.  It combines Theory and Practice, and Mind and Body, and consists in a combination of Unity and Multiplicity.  It thus presents an example of an Organism that is easily accessible to Reflection.  Now, one proponent in the history of Philosophy of the primacy of Techne has been Protagoras.  But for the most part, Philosophical Reflection has been at the service of detachment from Corporeality, a result of which has been the predominance of quasi-Dualism and the separation of Unity and Multiplicity.  Accordingly, the rare attention to the concept of Organism, e. g. from Kant and Whitehead has been in terms of a transcendent Duality, e. g. Theory and Practice, Efficient Causality and Teleological Causality, etc.  In contrast, Reflection on skilled behavior easily reveals a concept of Organism that seems to be familiar to everybody but most Philosophers.