A racionalidade da arte poética em Aristóteles

Abstract

In the Aristotelian corpus, especially in the Nicomachean Ethics, in Metaphysics, and Poetics, art is defined herein as a reasoned ability to produce, either as a general judgment about beings or actions that have attributes in common, acquired through experience. Have poetic art is defined essentially as mimesis of actions of men who operate through agents (especially in relation to the performing arts). Thus, the ability to produce (poiésis) is distinguished from the ability to take action (práxis), as in the case of art, the artwork (fruit of artistic activity), and intelligent agent that order the material according with specific form, are different, allowing us to define the artistic activity from the four causes stipulated by Aristotle. From the epistemological point of view, are interested in analyzing the distinctive lógos of creative activity of art itself. In this sense, such rationality is universal, although lean over the contingency and the particular, fit the context of action and production, so that it is necessary, therefore, also distinguish the rationality of art, and phrônesis (usually translated as prudence or wisdom practice), for Aristotle considers tacit distinction between acting and producing.