The paper offers a disjunctivist solution to the paradox of tragedy. The first part of the paper defends a version of disjunctivism as that doctrine is understood in the epistemology of perception, and contrasts it with its rival, conjunctivism. In the second part of the paper, it is argued that the traditional paradox of tragedy—the question why tragedy gives pleasure—can be solved by adopting a disjunctivist approach to the relevant felt emotions. The tragic audience does not really feel ‘sorrow, terror, anxiety’ (so Hume), but simulacra thereof, emotions which resemble the originals in certain respects but which have quite different connections with action. A conjunctivist approach to the paradox discerns a ‘highest common factor’ in both non-fictional and fictional scenarios: but this is not only phenomenologically implausible; it decouples the agent from the actions that are essentially keyed to particular emotions, and so splits the self.

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分离主义与悲剧的悖论

本文为悲剧的悖论提供了一种分离主义的解决方案。本文的第一部分捍卫了分离主义的一种版本，因为该学说是在知觉认识论中理解的，并将其与它的竞争对手结识主义进行了对比。本文的第二部分认为，悲剧的传统悖论——悲剧为何带来快乐的问题——可以通过对相关感受情感采取析取主义方法来解决。悲剧观众并没有真正感受到“悲伤、恐怖、焦虑”（休谟如此），而是它们的拟像，即在某些方面与原作相似的情感，但与行动的联系却截然不同。结合主义的方法来解决这个悖论，在非虚构和虚构的场景中都发现了一个“最高公因数”：但这不仅在现象学上令人难以置信，而且在现实中也是如此。它将主体与本质上与特定情绪相关的行为脱钩，从而分裂自我。