Open AccessLa poesía como causalidad en la <i>Poética</i> de Aristóteles
Author(s) -
Alberto Díaz Tejera
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1984.v52.i2.698
Subject(s) - poetics , philosophy , tragedy (event) , poetry , foundation (evidence) , innovator , socrates , literature , perspective (graphical) , greek tragedy , humanities , epistemology , art , law , linguistics , intellectual property , political science , visual arts
Aristotle's Poetics is much more than a literary preceptive and much more than a treatise on Greek tragedy. The author believes that a great part of its message is lost if it is not seen from a broader perspective: that of art as a creative and infinite principle which exists in the mind of men. In this respect Aristotle was a major innovator: he considers poetry as the foundation and cause rather than a copy of reality, and therefore frees it from ethical considerations