Filosofia ed etica nella Poetica di Aristotele

This short essay tries to examine the principles and the theoretical considerations that convince Aristotle, in chapter IX of Poetics, to assert that “poetry is more philosophical and more serious than history”, so giving the poetic mimesis the character of wisdom that was attributed to it by tradition and that Plato, on the contrary, questioned. This essay suggests a reading of Aristotelian text on poetics strongly linked with philosophical and ethical subjects of Aristotle, through an analysis of critical notions for the language of Aristotle’s philosophy such as ‘Universal’, ‘Form’, ‘Action’, ‘Goal’, ‘Fate’, ‘Probability’ and ‘Necessity’. Notions which also come back to Poetics, and which concern tragic mythos in particular