Abstract
When philosophy was born in the form that it still possesses - that is, when the idea of the idea first came in to being - tragedy was among its chief preoccupations. For different reasons, but with equal seriousness of purpose, Plato and Aristotle took Homer and Sophocles as themes for their own reflections. This was so clearly the case that it is fair to say that philosophizing legitimized itself as a way of thinking and speaking about the riddles of life against what was at the time the more established form of tragic theater. The resistance of tragedy to the idea, a resistance to which Plato was especially sensitive, helped define the original philosophical conception of tragedy. It even helped to define the character of philosophy itself.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Heideggers Schelling-Seminar (1927/28): Die Protokolle von Martin Heideggers Seminar zu Schellings "Freiheitsschrift" (1927/28) und die Akten des Internationalen Schelling-Tags 2006 |
| Editors | Lore Hühn, Jörg Jantzen |
| Place of Publication | Germany |
| Publisher | Frommann-Holzboog |
| Pages | 113-138 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783772830662 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783772824647 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- philosophy
- Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976