Tragedy Without the Gods
Autonomy, Necessity and the Real Self
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9467116 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Denham (0000-0003-1073-9338, St. John's College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-159 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayu007 |
| OpenAlex | W2317384282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The classical tragedies relate conflicts, choices and dilemmas that have meaningful parallels in our own experience. Many of the normative dimensions of tragedy, however, rely critically on the causal and motivational efficacy of divine forces. In particular, these narratives present supernatural interventions invading their characters’ practical deliberations and undermining their claims to autonomous agency. Does this dynamic find any analogy in a contemporary, secular conception of moral agency? It does, but it is an analogy that challenges certain standard philosophical accounts of agentive self-governance
Agency (philosophy · Analogy · Autonomy · Economics · Epistemology · Moral agency · Narrative · Normative · Parallels · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |