Relationship Between “Beautiful” and ”Tragedy” in Aristotelian Aesthetics

This study aims to reveal the relationship between 'beautiful' and 'tragedy' in Aristotelian aesthetics and to explain in detail how these two concepts are related. Aristotle needed an evaluation of tragedy, which he called "poetry art" in Poetika, in an aesthetic context and associated it with "beautiful". While doing this, he tried to explain why the epic stays outside the 'beautiful' field of perception and why it cannot be 'beautiful' even though it is within the 'beautiful' perception of comedy, with justifications. In Aristotelian aesthetics, 'beautiful' requires a 'magnitude' and an 'order' originating from 'mimesis' that can exist within the field of eye perception. The 'magnitude' and 'order' in question also manifest themselves as the indispensable of tragedy. This study, which aims to reveal the relationship between 'beautiful' and 'tragedy' in Aristotelian aesthetics, in which contexts and how this relationship is established, with content analysis and descriptive analysis methods, is an attempt to approach the literature from a different perspective. The examination questions in this study are as follows: (1) What is Aristotelian aesthetics, what should be understood from it? (2) How was the concept of "beautiful" described in the Poetics?(3) How was the concept of "tragedy" described in Poetics? (4) How were “beautiful” and “tragedy” related in the Poetics?

Keywords

Aristotelian aesthetics, Beautiful, Tragedy