Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies
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| - | [[Aristotle]] was the first philosopher to explain why we like horror, and to provide the basis for a [[theory of horror]]. | + | "[[Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies]]. is a dictum by [[Aristotle]], recorded in ''[[Poetics (Aristotle)|Poetics]]''. |
| - | :"[[Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies]]." --[[Aristotle]] via the ''[[Poetics (Aristotle)|Poetics]]''. | + | |
| + | With this dictum [[Aristotle]] was the first philosopher to explain why we like horror, and to provide the basis for a [[theory of horror]]. | ||
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"Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies. is a dictum by Aristotle, recorded in Poetics.
With this dictum Aristotle was the first philosopher to explain why we like horror, and to provide the basis for a theory of horror.
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