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    People at any time can come to appreciate both the art of... — Carmelics
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    People at any time can come to appreciate both the art of Sophocles and that of Shakespeare

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    • 1.The art of Sophocles and the art of Shakespeare rest on the same underlying principle
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    • 2.Works sharing an underlying principle are accessible across time, though requiring effort to appreciate their language, customs, and worlds
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    • 1.Herder argues that each historical epoch constitutes a self-contained whole whose values and meanings cannot be fully translated across cultural boundaries.
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    • 2.Sophocles' tragedies are constitutively embedded in Attic religious ritual, civic life, and polytheistic cosmology that modern audiences cannot genuinely inhabit.
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    • 3.Appreciation that requires stripping away constitutive context yields a different aesthetic object, not cross-temporal access to the original work.
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    • 1.Gadamer's concept of historically-effected consciousness holds that a work's meaning is always co-constituted by the interpreter's own historical horizon.
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    • 2.If meaning is horizon-dependent, then what contemporary audiences appreciate in Sophocles is necessarily a fusion of horizons, not the work itself as it stood for its original audience.
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    • 3.A claim of genuine cross-temporal appreciation therefore conflates the fused product of hermeneutic encounter with the original aesthetic object.
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    Precisely because the art of Sophocles and that of Shakespeare rest on the same underlying principle it is possible for people at any time to come to appreciate them both, although no doubt with the considerable effort it would take to appreciate fully their language, their customs, in short, their worlds.
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