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2. Aristotle's Poetics

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Tragedies Are Very Different From One Another

Budapest: Tragedy enables us to enter much more fully than we otherwise could into the mind of suffering person. He thinks this is because tragic heroes are eloquent in a way that real suffering people never ever are. We can only get this insight on condition that we suffer, to some extent, with the tragic hero. But it's worth it in Bud's view because of our attachment to truth.

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