چکیده:
The paper aims to study the Shahnameh on the basis of Hegel’s
theory of tragedy. For Hegel, political authority was closely related to
tragedy and the two formed a unique worldview that helps us understand
Greek society and polity in a new way. It is hoped that by studying the
Shahnameh on this basis, we may be able to come to a better
understating of Iranian society and polity.
خلاصه ماشینی:
For Hegel, political authority was closely related to tragedy and the two formed a unique worldview that helps us understand Greek society and polity in a new way.
It will be argued that the concept of political authority, which plays an important role in Hegel’s definition of tragedy, is of central importance in understanding the Shahnameh.
Writing in the 1 980s Saidi-e Sirjani gives a portrait of Esfandiyar as a prince that had both political and religious authority, thinking, it seems, mainly of the events taking place in Iran in the 1980s.
What is of particular importance for the argument of this paper is that first of all political and divine authority are separate in the Greek polis.
S. Harris writes " Hegel understands Greek Tragedy as the political means through which the perfect balance of the spiritual truth was maintained.
However, as Hegel remarks “…the chorus is essentially appropriate in an age where moral complications cannot yet be met by specific valid and just laws and firm religious dogmas, but where the ethical order appears only in its direct and living actuality and remains only the equilibrium of a stable life secure against the fearful collisions to which the energies of individuals in their opposing actions must lead.
The complexity of the relationship between political authority and tragedy becomes even more clear in our final story, that of Esfandiyar.
Here too the conflict between the religious and the state law, which is central to Hegel's definition of tragedy, is ruled out.