Noname

Authors: Rokotyanskaya L.O.
Published in issue: #10(27)/2018
DOI: 10.18698/2541-8009-2018-10-390
Category: Humanities | Chapter: Philosophy Science
Keywords: laughter, laughable, irony, humour, comedy, ancient world, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian
Published: 23.10.2018

The paper is devoted to analysis of the theories of “laughter” and “laughable”, formulated in era of antiquity. A significant part of essays with self-explanatory titles “About laughter” and “About laughable” did not reach our times. Works of Gorgius from Leontin, Theophrastus, Demetrius of Falerum, as well as of the most laughing philosopher of all time, Democritus from Abder, are considered as lost. Among philosophers, whose views on laughter have been preserved in a considerable for analysis volume, are Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian. Works of the last two thinkers contain also actual nowadays practical notes on the use of laughter in oratory. Special attention is paid to the history of development of concepts of “irony” and “humor”, which originated in the ancient Greek era, but received their modern meaning only after millennia.

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