Lisa Marie Blair

Tag: Aristotle

  • Tragedy is Not of Persons

    Tragedy is not an imitation of persons, but of actions and of life. Well-being and ill-being reside in action, and the goal of life is an activity, not a quality; people possess certain qualities in accordance with their character, but they achieve well-being or its opposite on the basis of how they fare.”

    — Aristotle, Poetics

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  • Those Who Imitate

    Those who imitate, imitate agents; and these must either be admirable or inferior.”

    — Aristotle, Poetics

  • Imitation

    Imitation comes naturally to human beings from childhood (and in this they differ from other animals i.e. in having a strong propensity to imitation and in learning their earliest lessons through imitation); so does the universal pleasure in imitations.”

    — Aristotle, Poetics