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2. Aristotle's Poetics

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Why Is There No Pain in the Experience of Tragedy?

In a good tragedy, the pleasure we get from these things is stronger than the negative emotions. And that when this happens, the pain of these emotions is converted into pleasure. So he thinks that there's all kinds of elements of a tragedy that are very pleasurable and unproblematically pleasurable. But how can pleasure derive from that? It's where does the pleasure come from, even though there is pain?

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