1.2. Ascend to a place where you can see the forms
1.3. Beauty is comprised of 3 things: Integrity, Harmony and Clarity.
1.4. Philosophy of Art invites us to examine our own desires, or does it suspend desires? Art permits us to give ourselves to it. The steering (manipulation/truth tracing) entices and provokes our desires.
2. Tragic Flaw - Hamartia
2.1. A fatal flaw, missing the mark, bad shot, error
2.2. Allows tragic instability to be present without breaking chains of unity or intelligibility.
3. 5.Nietzsche
3.1. Classicist
3.2. The positive Apollonian art is contrasted with the destructive, god smashing Dionysian art
3.3. Scopenhauer described the fearless exaltation experienced when confronting the normally fearful
4. Catharsis
4.1. Pity , frenzy and fear are key emotions in tragedy - pleasurable alleviation. Tragedy nourishes irrational part of the soul.
4.2. A religious word with analogies in ordinary life
4.3. Teaches ways of balancing and integrating emotions.
4.4. Since Freud, notions of aesthetic catharsis entangled with psychoanalysis.
5. Tragedy
5.1. Art arouses powerful feelings motivated and grounded in apt perceptions - has ethical implications. The frame of experience is pleasure - Like on the rollercoaster or ghost ride - you are enjoying your screaming.
