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... living creature " , 1 and there , more than once , he lets the matter rest . While , therefore , the Poetics makes poor sense if its philosophy - which means first and foremost the metaphysical basis of the idea of tragic action - is ...
... living creature " , 1 and there , more than once , he lets the matter rest . While , therefore , the Poetics makes poor sense if its philosophy - which means first and foremost the metaphysical basis of the idea of tragic action - is ...
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... living humanly has nothing to do with living less than fully , and nothing to do with asceticism ; poverty , for example , allied with impiety , destroys a man's life , 1 and Sophocles's frequent coupling of wealth and hubris is ...
... living humanly has nothing to do with living less than fully , and nothing to do with asceticism ; poverty , for example , allied with impiety , destroys a man's life , 1 and Sophocles's frequent coupling of wealth and hubris is ...
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... living with high station , the farmer now adds his vision of humanity united in its daily needs . Talk of the Euripidean particular and universal ceases , perhaps , to be offensively abstract in the light of this double realisation ...
... living with high station , the farmer now adds his vision of humanity united in its daily needs . Talk of the Euripidean particular and universal ceases , perhaps , to be offensively abstract in the light of this double realisation ...
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New Fictions for Old I I | 11 |
Imitation and Action | 21 |
Human Beings | 29 |
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