The art more geometrico: Emotions, measure, and mixed art forms in Plato
L’arte more geometrico: Emozioni, misura e forme d’arte miste in Platone
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https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_35_13Keywords:
Tragedia, commedia, piacere, dolore, animaAbstract
The aim of this paper is to present some aspects of the correlation between tragedy and comedy from some passages of Platonic dialogues, in order to show that this connection goes back to three reasons: the cultural background from which the dialogues are inspired, where similar contaminations between tragedy and comedy are attested; the mixture of pleasure and pain, typical above all of mixed pleasures and disordered souls; the awareness of the above-mentioned mixtures, proper only to souls subject to the domain of reason. Moreover, there are some hints at the possibility of a philosophical drama, where problems of popular art are absent, thanks to the knowledge of reality.
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