A step towards reconciliation: Hegel's Antigone and ethical life

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, Felsefe Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2012

Öğrenci: SİNEM ÖNEM

Danışman: ELİF ÇIRAKMAN

Özet:

This thesis focuses on Sophocles’ Antigone in the context of Hegel’s reference to it in describing the ancient Greek ethical life in the chapter on “Spirit” of the Phenomenology of Spirit. While evaluating the ancient Greek ethical life as a moment on the way to Spirit’s self-knowledge which dissolves through its own dialectics, Hegel describes the inherent contradictions of ancient Greek ethical life which cause its dissolution through Antigone. Antigone’s act of mourning has a central position in the context of the supersession of these contradictions. The aim of this thesis is to understand the ancient Greek ethical life as Hegel describes it and to specify Antigone’s position in this description.