The Poetics of Aristotle, Part 2
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Let's return to the earliest known work on Western dramatic theory and learn about character, verbs, and why Homer is always right. Also "women can also be good," which is…something? No worries, it gets a lot better after that.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep. |
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| 1:20.0 | Find a comfortable spot. |
| 1:25.0 | Adjust your volume. |
| 1:28.0 | Take a nice deep breath in. |
| 1:32.0 | Let it out slowly. And off we go. |
| 1:39.8 | Tonight we're returning to a work considered to be the earliest surviving piece on dramatic theory, |
| 1:47.0 | written around 335 BC, The Poetics by Aristotle in an English translation from the 19th century by S.H. Butcher. |
| 2:02.0 | Let's pick up right where we left off quite a long time ago. |
| 2:07.0 | Chapter 15 |
| 2:11.0 | In respect of character, there are four things to be aimed at. |
| 2:17.0 | First and most important, it must be good. |
| 2:21.0 | Now any speech or action that manifests moral purpose of any kind will be expressive |
| 2:29.5 | of character. The character will be good if the purpose is good. This rule is relative to each class. |
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