The Five Great Skeptical Dramas of History (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Owen, John

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ISBN 10: 1330113888 ISBN 13: 9781330113882

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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A life-labour expended on thinkers of a special type, com bined With a survey of all Literature from the standpoint of the same thought, might not unreasonably be expected to make discoveries and induce results of a peculiar kind. Without anticipating any a priori harmony or providential relation, so to speak, between the labour and its outcome, the philosophical thinker may feel no small gratification at observing how much greater and richer and how much more important his scheme of thought is than he had anticipated. Contemplating, for example, the history of skeptical free-thinkers as a department of philo sophy in Which less labour had been spent than it seemed to deserve, the author of the following pages was struck With the remarkable fact that just as the greatest thinkers have been of a skeptical kind, so all the dramas that have most impressed themselves on the minds of men have been dramas Whose subjects and characters have pertained to skeptical free thought. In a word, all the greatest dramas and dramatic plots in all ages of the world have been of this class.

Thus the greatest of Greek plays, the masterwork of the greatest of Greek dramatists, is Without doubt the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus; thelnoblest of Bible-books, that is, with a dramatic plat and character, is unquestionably the Book of Job; the greatest play of England's, and of the world's, great dramatist has been the Hamlet of Shakespeare; and the noblest drama of the most famous of modern poets has been the Faust of Goethe While the problem of the Faust hasing the character of the writer, as well as that of his nation, as each of these great plays has done.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330113888
• ISBN 13: 9781330113882
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416