Aristotle's Poetics, Chapter 15, on the Characters of Poetry, page 242:
"In the Characters there are four points to aim at. First and foremost, that they shall be good. There will be an element of character in the play, if (as has been observed) what a personage says or does reveals a certain moral purpose; and a good element of character, if the purpose so revealed is good. Such goodness is possible in every type of personage, even in a woman or a slave, though the one is perhaps an inferior, and the other a wholly worthless being."
Since women are perhaps inferior, they have perhaps less possibility of goodness, and therefore perhaps more excuse for badness?
A slightly different translation is here under Part XV.
5 comments:
Nice :-)
Of course, if I were a man, I could have expounded more ably.
(only idiots feel superior to those they fear - Ma Hoyt)
hmm... makes you feel good about aristotle, doesn't it?
so sorry i didn't get the chance to see you before i left school. i don't know if tammy told you... i ended up leaving at the spur of the moment on wednesday to avoid as much bad weather as possible. best wishes for you as you travel the world.
-lw
Thanks, Laura, you came to mind today even before I read your note. Merry Christmas!
Sharon, Its official. I have one semester of college under my belt. I am also pretty happy with my grades as well.
A's in P.E. and English Comp.
B's in New Testament, Cross
Cultural Ministry, and Concepts
in Fitness
C's in Sociology and Spanish 2
So thats pretty good for my first ever semester. Well you have a Merry Christmas!
~AJH~
Andrew, all I can say is you're pretty brave to post your first-semester grades online, and on someone else's blog at that!
Good work. By the way, you get an A in College Survival. The credit for this course is an imaginary number that hasn't yet been discovered, so no one has tried to factor it into the GPA.
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