philosophy and theatre an introduction

46 A related question in film studies asks if viewers of films imagine themselves there at the events (or looking through the le ...

fictional fear, depending on whether I believe in or make-believe in the existence of the threat. In both cases, I am experienci ...

Part II FROM THE STAGE TO THE WORLD ...

terrifying scene that makes me laugh instead of making me afraid. In such cases, it is not clear how the make-believe plus quasi ...

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absorbed in plays relatively easily and it’s hard work to keep reminding ourselves that it’s not really happening.^16 We cannot ...

5 A School of Morals? TheEncyclopaedia or, to give it its full alternative title, The Systematic Dictionary of the Arts, Science ...

all there is to it. For example, the parallel with Vanya is not helpful. My pity for Vanya is not a general mood; I know exactly ...

That is, although D’Alembert acknowledges that the Genevans are in some respects two hundred years ahead (of educated, late eigh ...

A pluralistic solution? What we have set out here are some basic strategies for responding to the problem of how I might pity Va ...

natural, that is, in any obvious way). Broadly speaking, we are talking about things that‘please us’, which is not the same as g ...

Hume, although it’s clear from his essay that by his time it was already an established topic for philosophical discussion. He b ...

(like theatre) might indirectly be useful and advantageous, if all the people who attend it would otherwise be doing much more u ...

have indulged in over the years–gladiator battles, public executions, jousting, hunting, bullfights, boxing and so on–it seems t ...

the grounds that it’s natural. Second, one should ask why it matters whether something is natural or not. Presumably, by most st ...

enjoying tragedy doesn’t involve bringing about horrible events, we can set about doing what we always do, namely enjoying watch ...

also a school of morals, implicitly defendsPhèdreon Christian grounds. In this play, he says, thinking about an act is punished ...

others that aren’t presently threats to ourselves. But in that case, we would expect to enjoy tragedies that show events unlikel ...

supposes, watchLearwithout taking home any message about how children ought to behave towards their parents. But even if, say, S ...

I might not have said, unprompted, that‘I really enjoyed it’. There’s nothing particularly surprising about this: the best philo ...