called Oedipus who is a king of high morals. He wronged his parents without knowing their identity and he later paid the price for his sins. In this thesis I will discuss the first two constituents of Greek tragedy‚ that is‚ Plot and Characters. Aristotle’s Poetics illustrates a protagonist whose reversal of fortune emerges out of discovery which leads to his sufferings; In Sophocles’ play Oedipus discovers his true identity and pays for his wrong-doings in the past. Aristotle states that the protagonist
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Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is an imitation of a complete action that is serious and important and artistically ornamented with several contributing elements. These contributory essentials are the makings of sublime art which arouses pity and fear in the audience leading to a purging of emotions‚ which results in a state of emotional fulfillment. Macbeth is considered as a Shakespearian tragedy recounting the events of a Scottish general who murders his King and gains the throne to eventually
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Aristotle argues that women are less then men by nature. His idea of Telos gives women the natural ability to be seen as men’s inferior. Aristotle looked at the status of women in his own slaveholding class and wrote solemnly of how natural it is for a woman to lead a quiet‚ sedentary life‚ staying indoors to nurture children and preserve possessions acquired by her "natural ruler‚" man‚ who is well constituted for activities outside the home. What today’s sociobiologist proclaims as genetically
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the best way to become self-sufficient as one can practice the process without the external requirement‚ only the brain is required. In order to satisfy these condition‚ Aristotle concludes contemplative life is the best life. However‚ I believe Aristotle’s argument is unsuccessful for the following reasons: Humans‚ from my understanding‚ are a super-intelligent form of animal. We have the forms of animals: our body requires energy‚ such as food and water. Humans can also practice reasoning to obtain
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Aristotle’s point of view of a tragic hero sort of sounds like a movie‚ or a sad book story. Ancient greek myths‚ like Anitgone’s story was all fake and made up for an audience‚ Aristotle has never lived in our day and age. Not a lot of people who are ranked high in the world do not necessarily come down from their reign. Their lives are a dream come true. There are some cases where people who are or were famous have tragic things happen that can put them down‚ probably not to the extent of death
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The Golden Age of Greece Greece is a country with an abundant history more commonly known as the Golden Age of Greece or the Iron Age. The Iron Age began in the year 1000 BCE in Athens. The History of Greece is naturally separated into three periods each marked by its own distinctive artistic achievement. Some of the most famous pieces of literature were created during the first three hundred years of Greece such as the Iliad‚ and the Odyssey‚ and because these stories are based on heroic characters
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In Books 9-11 of the Nicomachean Ethics‚ Aristotle works to segregate the explanations of happiness as a result of fortune and happiness as a result of virtuous actions. However‚ after he reaches an ideologically pure explanation‚ he quickly pivots backwards‚ settling on an explanation that incorporates elements of both theories. This allows posthumous events to affect one’s state of happiness‚ impacts his definition of happiness‚ and exemplifies the text’s ideological inclusion. Before we can delve
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interpreting such actualization as occurring “through speech” (qtd. in Kennedy)‚ further suggesting that rhetoric may exist as a certain art of speech-making or discourse that retains practical and heuristic function in contemporary society. Additionally‚ Aristotle’s belief that “rhetoric usually seeks a specific judgement” supports the theory that rhetoric is always employed for some specific intention or purpose that is ultimately decided by the rhetor—based upon a personal want or interpretation of an “exigence”
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An Analysis of Aristotle’s Poetics A square may be a rectangle‚ but a rectangle may never be a square. This idea is not complex‚ however when it is applies in Aristotle’s Poetics to the Greek Epics and Tragedies‚ it is suddenly not only applicable in an arithmetic context‚ but it gives a relevant and true breakdown of the commonalities and different components within these genres of literature. Within these poetics‚ Aristotle explicates the difference between an Epic and a Tragedy and defines
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The second way that our definition of justice ought to be defined is as a personal attitude of respecting the rights of others. One of the major shortcomings of Aristotle’s ethical theory is that he failed to give an account of rights and duties. For Aquinas‚ a right is defined as “something proper due to each class of person in respect of his particular office” (ST II-II. Q57. A4). Although neither Aristotle or Aquinas gave a sufficient account of rights‚ moral and political philosophers would
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