Ancient origins of S. T. Coleridge’s «divine tetrad»

Authors

  • Narine M. Shakhnazaryan Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

Plato, S. T. Coleridge, triad, tetrad, synthesis – mesothesis, symbol – allegory, organicism – mechanicism, German idealism, Romanticism

Abstract

The article considers connection between Coleridge’s tetrad model of being and consciousness and ancient philosophy, based on his final book «Table talk» (1834). Coleridge took the opposite of mechanistic (mesothesis) and organic (synthesis) methods of ideal and material dialectic’s cognition to the basic for European philosophy difference between constitutive and regulatory status of an idea, justified by Plato and Aristotle.

Author Biography

  • Narine M. Shakhnazaryan, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (philology); associate professor at the department of foreign literature, faculty of philology.

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Published

2020-10-12

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World and National Culture

How to Cite

[1]
Shakhnazaryan, N.M. 2020. Ancient origins of S. T. Coleridge’s «divine tetrad». Human in the Socio-Cultural Dimension. 2 (Oct. 2020), 28–33.