Abstract:

The term "tragedy" is widely misused in common parlance to designate any disastrous occurrence of great magnitude. If this practice is to be resisted and reformed, an alternative account of real-life tragedy must be sustained. I attempt to offer one that is grounded in the connections between agency and luck. More specifically, I argue that in a universe lacking any supernatural power of fate, real-life tragedy occurs when the exercise of agency results, through a confluence of constitutive and circumstantial bad luck, in the suffering and the destruction of the agent.

中文翻译：

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代理、运气和悲剧

摘要：

“悲剧”一词在俗语中被广泛滥用，指代任何规模巨大的灾难性事件。如果要抵制和改革这种做法，就必须维持对现实生活悲剧的另一种描述。我试图提供一个以代理和运气之间的联系为基础的。更具体地说，我认为，在一个缺乏任何超自然命运力量的宇宙中，现实生活中的悲剧发生在当代理的行使，通过构成性和间接的厄运的汇合，导致代理的痛苦和毁灭。