Philosphy and viewpoints on Gordon
...ronic tragedy” from when I was younger. This moment Gordon writes about is the Main point in where Oedipus realizes in his conversations questioning Tiresias about the plague on the land. Little did Oedipus know his own anger in killing his father, would be the same anger that relinquishes the answer from the prophet, revealing that his parents were murderers, planning on leaving a bound Oedipus in the woods to die, to defeat the oracles prophecy. He himself was a murderer and an incestual man who loved his mother. The irony here is that Oedipus thought he was doing the kingdom a good deed by calling in the soothsayer. He had no means of knowing this would cause his own defeat, and the new knowledge of the tragic news about him murdering his biological father, sleeping with his mother, and fathering the children which he was brother to, would drive any man mad, even a king. In a matter of moments Oedipus takes a whirlwind spin 180 degrees being the greatest man in all of Thebes, solving the Spinx riddle, saving the kingdom from plague, marrying Queen Jocasta, to being a murderer, incestor, and is now the lowest man in Thebes because of his unknown past. His identity blindly, changed to the exact opposite from being king to a self-blinded, banished, beggar sent to live alone in the mountains. This ironic pivot-point is where the three kinds of discovery discussed by Gordon all come crashing down at once for the reader and Oedipus. This also advocates Aristotle’s’ “attic tragedy”, being the fall of good men. In looking at page 32 and Gordons comments on fallibility, though I do agree with her when reading this statement. I feel this is a “No-brainer” giving the definition of fallibility as: The liability to err. With a margin for error in anyones beliefs, there must be a sensible movement of thoughts and questioning by any person striving to perfect or make improvements on anothers thoughts and ideas. Without any risk of error in ones beliefs, the ideas given by Socrates or any man for that matter, would be factual, therefore being unquestionable and unmitigated. The human race furthers itself on questioning of this nature. This is how man improves himself and separates itself from other living creature...