Verisimilitude or necessity

Keywords:

Aristotle, Poetics, verisimilitude, necessity, narrative theory, action theory

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to establish the meaning of the notions of verisimilitude (τὸ εἰκός) and necessity (tò τὸ ἀναγκαῖον) in the formula “according to verisimilitude or according to necessity”, which plays an important role in the rules presented by Aristotle in his Poetics. The former notion is much less problematic than the latter, whose examination and clarification demand that attention be paid to passages in Aristotle’s work that have not been (or almost have not been) taken into account in this regard. An attempt is made to show the affinity or ultimate identity in the Aristotelian vi-sion of action in the domains of poetics and ethics, and to establish the conceptual relationship that is sugges-ted to exist between both notions in the Poetics.

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Author Biography

Eduardo Sinnott, Universidad del Salvador

Profesor en Filosofía (Universidad de Buenos Aires). Profesor en Lenguas Clásicas (Universidad de Buenos Aires). Doctor en Filosofía (Universidad de Münster, Alemania). Profesor emérito de la Universidad del Salvador. Ha sido Profesor Titular (concursado) en la Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora y Profesor Titular en la Facultad de Filosofía del Colegio Máximo de San José. Ha sido becario de la Thyssen Stiftung y del Stipendienwerk Lateinamerika-Deutschland, Categorizado como investigador, ha dirigido investigaciones en la Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora. Ha publicado artículos de la especialidad y traducido y anotado obras de Aristóteles y de San Agustín. Ha traducido más de veinte títulos de lenguas modernas. Ha sido jurado de numerosas evaluaciones académicas.

Published

2020-06-23