October 2011
3 posts
Aristotle and Catharsis
I’m in the library trying to do some research for a paper in my Aesthetics class. I found a book that looked promising in the database, searched for it, found it, and went back to where I was working.
I flipped to the index and found the passages about catharsis, and went to read those pages. One problem: the author switches between ancient Greek and English whenever he feels like it.
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I strongly agree with the conclusions of this study.