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This is the Partial Examined Life Episode 243 Part 2

continue on Aristotle's poetics.

So where did we stop?

Six still, right?

The priority of plot over character.

I had made the claim that's Seth first and then I chimed in and support that,

you know, I think a lot of what we can count as contemporary entertainment

isn't really tragedy.

And I suggested we'll just have to slog on to figure out why that's the case.

Yeah, let's get more of this apparatus of what tragedy is and what makes for good tragedy out

before we bring it back to analyzing contemporary stuff and things like that.

I think that's just going to be confusing at this point.

He makes some distinctions early on that we've kind of glossed

when he was talking about comedy versus tragedy and whatever.

He talks about lampooning and a few other modalities and that we should be clear

that tragedy has a very narrow swim lane based on the plot, the characters,

and then the setting and so forth.

I mean, we don't have to go through this whole taxonomy, but it would pay to,

I think, go through a little bit of detail there.

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