نوع مقاله : علمی - پژوهشی
نویسنده
استادیار گروه فلسفۀ هنر، دانشکدۀ هنر و معماری، دانشگاه بوعلیسینا، همدان، ایران
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
This article has sought to explore the views of Adam Smith, the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, on the aforementioned issue, known as "tragic pleasure" or the "paradox of tragedy." In his book The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith locates the solution to this problem neither in egoistic theories such as Thomas Hobbes's view (which attributes pleasure to the awareness of one's own safety) nor merely in David Hume's formalist theory based on eloquent and refined expression, but rather in the concept of "sympathy." For him, sympathy is not an automatic reaction but a process grounded in the faculty of imagination and moral judgment. Through the imagination, the spectator places themselves in the situation of the character, and the primary pleasure arises not from the suffering itself, but from the "harmony of sentiments" and the "approval" of the character's appropriate emotions in that situation. Consequently, this theory, by emphasizing the inseparable connection between aesthetics and ethics, appears to transform sympathy into a means for cultivating virtue and benevolence, thus presenting a more comprehensive and ethical solution to the paradox of tragedy compared to other proposed solutions. Since his solution differs, on the one hand, from that of David Hume and resembles, on the other, that of Edmund Burke, comparing it with the ideas of these two thinkers and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of his viewpoint in contrast to theirs has constituted the conclusion of the present study. The method of this research has been descriptive-analytical, based on library data.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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