Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of History
First Advisor
Michael F. Reardon
Term of Graduation
Summer 1975
Date of Publication
7-1975
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.) in History
Department
History
Language
English
Subjects
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) -- Religion, Greek drama (Tragedy), Religion in literature
DOI
10.15760/etd.2260
Physical Description
1 online resource (3, 64 pages)
Abstract
A parallel can be drawn in intellectual development between ancient Greece and late eighteenth century Europe concerning the secularization of the religious myth. This parallel is illustrated in a literary mode in Greece and in a philosophical mode in Europe. In both historical situations the intellectual development of a society was posited in a delicate balance of religious mythical interpretation of human existence and in a growing assertiveness of the self-consciousness of the individual. A significant point of analogy is the similarity of the Greek tragedians' attempt to define man in relation to the gods and Hegel's formulation of a philosophy which suspended in a delicate semantic balance the religious terminology of his Christian heritage and the intellectual developments of the preceding century.
It is my thesis that a significant point of analogy is the similarity of the Greek tragedians' attempt to define man in relation to the gods, and Hegel's formulation of a philosophy which suspended in a delicate semantic balance the religious terminology of his Christian heritage and the intellectual developments of the preceding century.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15269
Recommended Citation
Scot, Barbara, "Hegel and the Concept of Religion in Greek Tragedy" (1975). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 2263.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.2260
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