Verfuhrung durch Mitleid: G.E. Lessing's Emilia Galotti als Selbstanfhebung der Tragodia

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A critical analysis of G.E. Lessing's Theory of Pity is presented. Pity emerges as a form of self-observation, and as such distances it self from its own base in emotion thus failing to ground ethics in human nature and leading to realization of empathy's uncontrollable nature as well as self awareness that helps the subject act as a manipulator. The behavior of Emilia Galotti towards her father in this context is presented.

Evaluation, Behavior, Sympathy, Galotti, Emilia, Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim

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"Schilderungssucht" and "historische Krankheit": Lessing, Nietzsche, and the body historical

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Treating the human body as a subject of historiography connects Gotthold Ephriam Lessing's 'Laokoon' and Friedrich Nietzsche's essay "Von Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie fur das Leben." Both authors attribute social problems to confusion between the arts of space and time and characterize such problems as bodily illness.

Aesthetics, Critical Essay, Body, Human, Human body, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

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Mauritius von Craun and Otto von Freising's The Two Cities: 12th and 13th- century skepticism about historical progress and the metaphor of the ship

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Skepticism of people regarding the historical progress during 12th and 13th- century, with reference to Mauritius von Craun and Otto von Freising's "The Two Cities", is discussed.

Skepticism, Progress, 13th century AD, Novels, Authors, German, German writers, The Two Cities (Novel), Craun, Mauritius von, Freising, Otto von

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