Hamartia

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The hamartia or Hamartia (Greek ἁμαρτία ) originally meant as much as miss , miss , miss the mark or miss , understood in the context of this article as human misconduct within the meaning of the ancient term understanding.

Biblical view

It is only in the New Testament that Hamartia is used more heavily; it is no longer just the misconduct or a specific act meant, but represents the entire guilt, the sin in the sense of: the power of the person ( Rom 5.12  LUT ; Gal 3, 22  LUT ), the deeds ( Acts 2,38  LUT ; 3,19 LUT ; Hebr 1,3  LUT ; 2,17 LUT ), the nature of all people ( Joh 9,41  LUT ).

Classic tragedy

In the dramaturgical sense, Hamartia means the “misstep” that Aristotle assigns to the tragic hero of the ideal tragedy and that plunges him from happiness into unhappiness in the course of the plot. Hamartia has long been understood as the hero's moral guilt, while research since the 1950s has emphasized the intellectual aspect of Hamartia. More recent research, on the other hand, emphasizes the interlinking of moral guilt and intellectual error: Hamartia is not related to character and is on the one hand not a mere error, on the other hand it is not a definitive subjective guilt. The Hamartia does not explain the leitmotif of the Attic tragedy , the “tragic guilt” that grew out of hubris . For although Aristotle refers to the tragedians, the subject of his poetics is not the Attic tragedy of the fifth century, but an ideal tragedy. That is why Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff called for a separation of the historical interpretation of Attic tragedy from Aristotle's normative and aesthetically oriented tragedy theory.

literature

  • Jan Maarten Bremer : Hamartia. Tragic error in the poetics of Aristotle and in Greek tragedy. Amsterdam 1969. (dissertation).
  • Eun-Ae Kim: Lessing's theory of tragedy in the light of more recent Aristotle research. Würzburg 2002. Google books: [1]
  • Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek : The guilt in the tragedy, in: Ders .: Affektpoetik. A cultural history of literary emotions. Würzburg 2005, pp. 167-200. Google Books: [2]
  • Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff: What is an Attic tragedy? , in: Euripides , Herakles , explained by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Volume I: Introduction to the Greek Tragedy, Darmstadt 1959, pp. 44–120, here pp. 45–50, pp. 108–120.
  • Hamartia . Specialized lexicon of the scientific internet portal KinderundJugendmedien.de