Mimesis en Aristóteles : Reconsideración de su significado y su función en el Corpus Aristotelicum
Suñol, Viviana · SEDICI UNLP · 2009
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The point of departure of this research about the meaning and function of mimesis in Aristotle s thought is the adoption of a wide perspective of study, i.e. not limited to the sphere of the mimetic arts and taking care of the huge and diverse record of meaning of the mimetic vocabulary attested in the Aristotelian Corpus. The contemporary exegesis -paradigmatically represented by Halliwell (2002)- agrees to delimitate the area of inquiry to the domain of the Poetics (especially to its first three chapters) and to a lesser extent, to the last book of the Politics. Although it is not possible to reject the value that the Poetics has in the reconstruction of the aristotelian meaning of mimesis, the consideration of other works and other passages in which the philosopher employs this vocabulary, v.gr. H.A., Mete., Phys., Met., makes possible to understand the importance he recognize to the mimetic ability and arts within the framework of his thought. The reevaluation of the significance of this word family in the Corpus is organized in two main parts. The first is devoted to the analysis of the ability and the mimetic arts as forms of learning taking into account the uses of this vocabulary attested in the Poetics and the Politics VII-VIII. Despite that Aristotle does not offer a definition of the word in the Poetics and nowhere in the Corpus, the analysis done in the first chapter of this thesis of the most important uses of it in the work, i.e. Poet. 1-3, 4, 9, 24 y 25, reveals that the mimetic ability and the arts that derive from it are for him more or less complex forms of learning through the identification of similarities. The second chapter is dedicated to examine the pedagogical importance that Aristotle recognizes to mimesis and the singularity that attributes to the musical mimesis in the last two books of the Politics. The anthropological character of mimesis as a primary ability in the acquisition of knowledge inherently tied to the human desire of knowing explains the political and ethical function that he gives to music and plausibly, to the other mimetic arts in the utopian educative program of the ideal State. The second part is dedicated to explore the usage of the mimetic vocabulary in the rest of the Corpus, i.e. the uses that not refer to the mimetic arts and that make possible to understand the general meaning of this concept, and better comprehend their use in relation with this group of arts. The third chapter is devoted to the consideration of diverse passages that show the didactic and heuristic value of this word group in the sphere of natural research. The forth chapter answers to the methodological requirement of understanding the Aristotelian mimesis looking at the history of its reception. The principle that arts imitate nature used to be the axis of the reception of the aristotelian mimesis until the XIX century. Completely strange to the primary aesthetic interest of the actual exegesis, the principle is seeing as a menace against the singularity of art. In spite of this generalized attitude of the contemporary historical and systematic studies is necessary to reassess the significance of this principle though, it was formulated by Aristotle in relation with all the arts (mimetic and non-mimetic), its application to the first group allows to elucidate which is the function of this arts in relation with the goal that nature has establish for man. Finally, the appendix is devoted to the consideration of the undeniable actuality that aristotelian mimesis has in the systematical philosophical reflection about art.
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Suñol, V. (2009). Mimesis en Aristóteles: Reconsideración de su significado y su función en el Corpus Aristotelicum. SEDICI UNLP. https://doi.org/10.35537/10915/3095
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Suñol, Viviana. Mimesis en Aristóteles: Reconsideración de su significado y su función en el Corpus Aristotelicum. SEDICI UNLP, 2009. https://doi.org/10.35537/10915/3095.
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Suñol, Viviana. 2009. Mimesis en Aristóteles: Reconsideración de su significado y su función en el Corpus Aristotelicum. SEDICI UNLP. https://doi.org/10.35537/10915/3095.
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Suñol, V. 2009, Mimesis en Aristóteles: Reconsideración de su significado y su función en el Corpus Aristotelicum, SEDICI UNLP, available at: https://doi.org/10.35537/10915/3095 [Accessed 21 Jun. 2026].
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- Suñol, Viviana
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