JUSTICE: THE DIALECTIC UNITY OF COMEDY AND TRAGEDY
Abstract
Modern culture is organized by the idea of rationalization which extinguishes the feeling of the tragic life that represent not only tragedy as a literary genre or an aesthetical category, but also the insolubility of conflict between the good ones, the contradiction and conflict in regard to the essence of life, the unexplainable arbitrariness of factual circumstances, devastating potential of passions. This very fact shows that tragedy cannot be seen solely as a means of entertainment or a literary genre. If tragedy as an aesthetical category is the artistic expression of tragic experience, it can only be understood in a cultural context that underlies experience. Tragedies are the ethos of human existence. Indeed, ancient tragic dramas are based on the metaphysical suppostion that conflict, contradiction, arbitrariness and uncertainity is implict to both the structue of human beings and to the whole universe
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
Philosophy
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Funda Günsoy
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0000-0001-8764-8368
Türkiye
Publication Date
April 27, 2020
Submission Date
September 10, 2019
Acceptance Date
November 12, 2020
Published in Issue
Year 2021 Number: 21