A Criticism of Some Attempts to Rationalize Tragedy: A Thesis (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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My first attack on the problem was to verify the assertion by an inductive survey of tragic drama, both ancient and modern. The main result of this reading was to give the problem a different form; and the issue then became: Are not the difficulties of a solution of the tragic outlook to be explained as correlates of the theory of knowledge? The essay may therefore be regarded as an attempt to justify putting the problem in that way. The task resolved itself into a search through the literature of Western Europe for an idea: namely, What relation have men found between the causes of tragic disaster and the failure of knowledge to give valid results? Thus, the study, though historical in method, makes no claim to have exhausted the resources; but claims, rather, to be critical of results assumed to be defined with historical accuracy.

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