Sentences with phrase «tragic view»

A modern, secular version of this view can be found in certain tragic views of life which assume that evil and suffering is part of the human condition to which there is no ultimate solution.

I'm inclined to a more classically tragic view in the sense that all the good comes with some bad.

[12] His plays Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, and Wild Duck, for example, contain tragic views of marriage betrayed by characters who are imprisoned in self - centered seeking and lack the real self - possession of a person who knows he is created by God and who «finds himself by making a sincere gift of himself».

As we celebrate the day of the resurrection, we are reminded both of the tragic view of history and of time's being caught up into the more of the eighth day.

It would be rash to deny the appeal this tragic view has for us humans, all of whom are beset at times (sometimes for long periods of time) with the apparent absurdity of events and experiences.

To many intelligent people this tragic view seems to have the advantage of being «realistic» when compared to any belief in cosmic purpose.

Instead the tragic view proposes that the self - esteem without which we can not live contentedly can be gained in the face of absurdity much more readily than in the context of religious belief in universal intelligibility.

To many intellectuals today, this tragic view seems more truthful than any religious belief in cosmic purpose.

This is a tragic view of human history set over against a progressive view.

Aristotle had a tragic view of human existence.

If they were asked they would probably admit that there was a special affinity between the classical world view and Greek religion or the tragic view of life, whereas the modern world view - is so contaminated and corrupted by idolatry that it can not provide a basis for the Greek view of life.

The fact that Aeschylus believed in the Delphic oracle and we do not does not make the tragic view of life any less true; it simply compels us to discuss its claim to truth.

The tragic view of life, rather than the social obstacles to self - realization, is what comes to dominate her cinema.

If we consider the Renaissance as one of the shaping forces of the tragic view of humankind in art, we should remember that there were singular figures, such as Piero di Cosimo, who depicted a prelapsarian world of plenitude... Stavers extends this occult view of innocence and enchantment into the present.

Giacometti's attenuated figures became the ravaged archetypes of a tragic view of the 20th century.