Anagnorisis as a Guide to Morals

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Anagnorisis as a Guide to Morals

KAŠPÁRKOVÁ, Barbora

Základní údaje

Originální název

Anagnorisis as a Guide to Morals

Autoři

KAŠPÁRKOVÁ, Barbora (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Recognition : Continuity/Discontinuity. 2017 Salzburg Easter School – PhD-Forum in the context of the Salzburg Easter Festival 2017, 3–7 April, Salzburg University, 2017

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Rakousko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/17:00096679

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

Anagnorisis; Iris Murdochová; Aristoteles; ponaučení; Uťatá hlava

Klíčová slova anglicky

Anagnorisis; Iris Murdoch; Aristotle; Morals; A Severed Head

Štítky

rivok

Změněno: 2. 10. 2020 15:28, Mgr. Barbora Kašpárková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Murdoch in her Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals discussed and analysed, among other issues, differences between the comic and tragic comparing interpretations of various philosophers, and recognized Aristotle’s ideas the most intriguing. The Ancient Greek playwrights did not believe that the same person could write both, tragedy and comedy and Plato’s Symposium ends with Socrates arguing and contradicting this issue, in a way also telling that Philosophers are closer to Truth. Plato did not consider theatre in general with much respect: according to him, drama may obstruct the highest vision due to evocation of false self-satisfaction and moreover, his disciple Aristotle described and defined tragedy, comedy and epic poetry in his Poetics and stated that the strong emotions that tragedy can produce are of purifying character. This purification was a problem for Murdoch who kept her mind occupied with this since she believed that ‘Such purification must surely be part of our general moral enterprise and should engage the interest of the moral philosopher’. Murdoch believed that ‘the tragic art form is rare’ and that the real tragedy must break the ego. She claims that a tragic hero should not die, because he/she must suffer the consequences of his/her ignorant behaviour and live with remorse. But on the other hand she also said that if there is no dead character, then it is a comedy. Murdoch was obsessed with looking for good/truth and so called ‘unselfing’ (term used by Simone Weil) in her work that she demonstrated by disentangling of lies that very often significantly change lives of characters in her fiction. Based on her philosophical views and her claiming a good novel is tragi-comic, the paper will focus on an analysis of her novel A Severed Head (1961). I will study the novel from the Aristotelian characterization of tragedy point of view, with a close look on moments of recognition that may or may not turn the character from ignorance to knowledge.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1065/2016, interní kód MU

Název: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě II (Akronym: VZALL2)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě II, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

KAŠPÁRKOVÁ, Barbora. Anagnorisis as a Guide to Morals. In Recognition : Continuity/Discontinuity. 2017 Salzburg Easter School – PhD-Forum in the context of the Salzburg Easter Festival 2017, 3–7 April, Salzburg University. 2017.

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KAŠPÁRKOVÁ, Barbora. Anagnorisis as a Guide to Morals. In \textit{Recognition : Continuity/Discontinuity. 2017 Salzburg Easter School – PhD-Forum in the context of the Salzburg Easter Festival 2017, 3–7 April, Salzburg University}. 2017.

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