Original scientific paper

Petrić and Acastos, Sequel One

Heda Festini ; Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

The author established on the occasion of the previous presentation “Petrić and Acastos” given at the symposium Petrić and Renaissance Philosophical Traditions, held in 2008, that Petrić was closest to the Platonist-Neoplatonist-Pythagorean original, but also that he contributed to the disintegration of classical ethical virtue (by some utilitarian interventions in particular) and that there were two more comparative models he came close to – that of Acastos I (in connection with the view that artistic creation contains all religion and morality) and to some extent that of Acastos II (only in connection with justice).
Retaining the three models, the author now deals with the comparison in relation to poetic art as it is outlined in the fifteen selected (translated) Petrić’s texts in the book by Ljerka Schiffler entitled Frane Petrić o pjesničkom umijeću (Frane Petrić on Poetic Art, Zagreb: Institut za filozofiju, 2007). The author will look into the degree to which the mentioned comparison revealed connections with previous conclusions.
Needless to say, the author will along the way try to determine whether Petrić’s poetics presents merely a defence of Plato’s attitude or it contains some elements of Aristotelianism, which would connect Petrić with not only Baroque and Mannerism but also modernist aesthetics.

Keywords

Frane Petrić; Plato; Aristotle; Iris Murdoch; art theory

Hrčak ID:

63001

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/63001

Publication date:

25.10.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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