The Personality of M?δεια(Medea): An Ethical Approach

• 作者: Evaggelia Kiosi
• 来源期刊: 心理学研究:英文版
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY Kant MEDEA SOCRATES SOPHISTS
• 年，卷（期）: psyresearch_2019,（7）
• 页码范围: 268-277
• 页数: 10页
• 分类号: G633.41

摘要

M?δεια(Medea), the tragedy written by Euripides (431 BC), refers to the story of a woman who seduced by her love for Jason, left her hometown of Colchis, and flew with him to Greece. Jason then betrayed Medea and got married with the daughter of Creon, King of Corinth. Medea, in order to get revenge, killed both Jason’s bride and his father-in-law, and then, after slaughtering her own children, she left to Athens. The approach of Medea’s personality, as a subject of this paper, takes place in the light of the ethical philosophy through comparative quote mainly of the representatives of the spirit of that period, sophists and Socrates, but also of later philosophers, such as Immanuel Kant. This contribution aims to demonstrate the timelessness of human experience through the centuries and explain why the literature of other cultures and eras continues to be of interest.