Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures

2. Aristotle's Poetics

Mar 15, 2011

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Tragedies Are Very Different From One Another

02:16

Is the Merchant of Venice a Racist Antisemitic Play?

03:41

Aristotle's Catharsis of Emotions

03:49

Introduction

3min

Aristotle's Four Causes

4min

Aristotle's Definition of a Mimetic Art Form

2min

Aristotle's Mimesis in Greek Drama

4min

Aristotle's Catharsis of Emotions

4min

Music and the Purging of the Emotions

2min

The Catharsis of Emotional People

3min

Catharsis and Education

3min

What Makes Something a Good Thing?

3min

10.

What Aristotle Says About Good Poems

4min

11.

The Plausibility Criteria for Poetry

2min

12.

Is the Merchant of Venice a Racist Antisemitic Play?

4min

13.

Is Poetry More Philosophical Than History?

3min

14.

The Meaning of Knowledge

4min

15.

The Pleasure Deriving From Pity and Fear

2min

16.

Why Is There No Pain in the Experience of Tragedy?

3min

17.

The Pleasure of Pity and Fear

3min

18.

Tragedies Are Very Different From One Another

2min

James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his second lecture in the Aesthetics series on Aristotle's Poetics.

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