La educación moral en la tragedia y la comedia griegas clásicas

Abstract

The intention is to resignify the theater of classical Greece, since it has been normally understood in concepts like beauty or form; a cultural precept by which emotions, facts or something that impress and exalt the senses. But beyond these alterations, the theatrical aesthetic field, through a cathartic purpose, shows an ethical concern, which is present in the tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles; however, comedy is also an instrument for education rather than a means of entertainment. And so giving evidence that the theater should not only be considered as an addition to the cultural life of man, but more important, as a means of moral education, always with a view to universal laws, which must be oriented at a practical level, in politics and the common good. The proposal of social education through theater presents a new perspective of theater in relation to its function and the way in which philosophy can make use of it: the ethical-political theatrical aesthetics.