Poetry and Equity: Aristotle's Defense of Fiction

Reading the Poetics in light of Aristotle's most complete statements of equity in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Rhetoric, this essay undertakes to demonstrate how and why Aristotle develops an art of poetry within the context of a science of ethics. It seeks to show, that is, how in direct res...

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Main Author: Eden, Kathy (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press 1982
In: Traditio
Year: 1982, Volume: 38, Pages: 17-43
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