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Perspective voyage · Fourth century BCE

Aristotle — Learning through imitation and organizing emotion through tragedy

Why seek fear and grief in tragedy when we avoid them in life, and what do we learn there?

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The Poetics treats imitation as a natural human mode of learning and tragedy as a composed imitation that reveals patterns of action.

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  • Aristotle's Aesthetics

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §3 Imitation; §4 Tragedy

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335 BCE · Around 335 BCE

The Poetics makes tragic plot and emotion objects of analysis.

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