Aristotle, Catharsis, Entertainment, and the Biochemistry of Responding to Audio Drama
Aristotle and Catharsis Aristotle was aware that stories achieve an effect in an audience that is somehow pleasing; what we call entertainment. He intuitively felt this was good for us as human beings (and in this I concur). But for Aristotle, the definition of what is good for us needed to be framed in terms […]