Le quattro cause della tragedia

This paper aims to analyze one of the highest achievements of humankind, the classical tragedy, via the application of the heuristic paradigm proposed by Aristotle in his Physics, the fourfold determination of the concept of cause. This scientific methodology – one of the most effective viatica for...

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Main Author: Andrea Vestrucci
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Language:deu
Published: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi 2013-06-01
Series:Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy
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Online Access:http://www.metajournal.org//articles_pdf/150-178-andrea-vestrucci-meta9-tehno.pdf
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description This paper aims to analyze one of the highest achievements of humankind, the classical tragedy, via the application of the heuristic paradigm proposed by Aristotle in his Physics, the fourfold determination of the concept of cause. This scientific methodology – one of the most effective viatica for a comprehensive response to the question of the nature of an object – informs the inquiry into the universal nature of tragedy, its hypercomplexity and hence its ethical and human relevance. Firstly, the concept of tragedy is dissected into its four causes – material, formal, efficient and final; given that the object of research is at the same time tragedy in general and this specific tragedy (i.e. the category and its case), each cause is subdivided in two, a distal one (if referred to the type) and a proximal one (if referred to the empirical object). Then, the methodology of the four causes is applied to the formal cause alone, the tragic conflict, in an attempt to better understand tragedy’s quiddity. The results of this more specific causal determination are finally applied to the four causes of tragedy, supporting the hypothesis of a close relationship between hybris, amartia, tragic conflict and education of the phronesis.
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four causes
phronesis
hybris
amartia
title Le quattro cause della tragedia
title_full Le quattro cause della tragedia
title_fullStr Le quattro cause della tragedia
title_full_unstemmed Le quattro cause della tragedia
title_short Le quattro cause della tragedia
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topic Aristotle
tragedy
four causes
phronesis
hybris
amartia
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