Abstract

LENIS CASTANO, John Fredy. THE SOLITUDE OF THE TRAGIC HERO: RELIGIOUS MORAL AND ETHICAL DECISIONS IN SOPHOCLES. Linguist.lit. [online]. 2014, n.65, pp.141-159. ISSN 0120-5587.

The relationship between divine commandments and human decisions has been a fundamental problem for Western ethics since ancient times. In the tragedies of Sophocles, both components of the relationship interact without causally subjecting each other, as their dynamism corresponds to a parallelism that is intersected when human action transgresses divine law and gods are not responsible for the transgressions of men. This paper aims to show how Sophocles and his thesis on the loneliness of ethical decisions becomes one of the fundamental predecessors to the tension between alienating morality and individual resistance. The tragic hero is depicted as a symbol of the agonistic and problem-related issues both in theory and praxis.

Keywords : Sophocles; Blaming Morality; Greek Gods; Ethics; Tragic Hero.

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