Vol. 17 (2024): Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism Literatures of Small Countries and Challenges of the Modern Global World
World Literature and National Literatures

For the Interrelationship of Ethics and Aesthetics (Rustaveli, Nizami)

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  • Lia Karichashvil
Lia Karichashvil
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature

Published 2024-12-20

Keywords

  • Rustveli,
  • Nizami,
  • Ethics,
  • Aesthetics

Abstract

The ethical credo of Shota Rustaveli and Nizami Ganjavi is closely intertwined with aesthetics. The beauty of the main characters is essentially determined by their worldview and ethics – where morality is flawed, the appearance is flawed as well. This view aligns with Aristotle's perspective. In spiritual literaturetoo, spiritual virtues define a character's beauty.
The inseparability of ethics from aesthetics is one of the fundamental aspects of humanistic worldview, which, in its significance, holds universal, pan-human value and emerges as a clear tendency not only in the works of Rustaveli and Nizami, but in the literature of all ages.

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