PHL 710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Racialization
18 Sep 2018
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Set in december 1941 (right before pearl harbour attack - japan attack us navy, brought us into world war) Sticks his neck out for nobody (reflects us foreign policy at the time) War is bigger than both him and his personal feelings for the woman. Inventor of field of logic (non-mathematical or symbolic) Politics (connection of poetics to aesthetics when it comes to politics) Humans are imitators, natural part of who we are. Theatre (tragedy and comedy) central humans being imitators. Want to imitate good actions but not bad ones. Gives rise to poetry, music due to our desire for imitation and harmony and rhythm. Pleasure in observation of imitation (ie. painting) More interested in imitation of animal than in seeing the animal in person. Aristotle responding to plato"s objections to imitation. We can take pleasure in things that we wouldn"t if they weren"t imitations (if they occurred in real life.
