Introduction

The second most popular English playwright (after W. Shakespeare) is known throughout the world. His plays are still staged on the most famous theater stages, revealing to the audience the undiminished severity of pressing problems in society. At one time, Bernard Shaw developed English drama at the end of the 19th century. out of the impasse created by "commercial theatres", entertainment and sentimental plays. He opened up a broad path of social and problematic dramaturgy to the public. B. Shaw tried (and he succeeded!) to bring the new drama closer to modern problems of social and intellectual life, choosing for himself, in his words, “the role of a jester who entertains only at first glance, but in reality says what he is talking about.” everyone is silent or doesn’t see and doesn’t want to see.” The English playwright became an exponent of his era, managing to reproduce not only the spirit, but also the logic of its intellectual life, its moral and ideological searches. His plays pushed the bourgeois intelligentsia to an epiphany, which ceased to idealize its world and its spiritual values and lost the optimism with which it once spoke in the 19th century. A century later, society still needs its accuser, who has chosen satire, accusatory laughter, and the bitter truth as his main weapon.

The purpose of this work is to analyze the creative method of B. Shaw, who skillfully used the power of paradoxes in his works. Solving such problems as analyzing the writer’s biography as a prerequisite for the formation of a creative method, defining the concept of paradox, identifying its typology based on creativity, as well as a detailed acquaintance with the paradoxes of B. Shaw will help to understand the depth of creativity and paradoxical thinking of the great English playwright.

The relevance of the study of this work lies in the unfading relevance of the topics considered by the writer. B. Shaw's paradoxes perfectly reflect the nature of things, ridicule ridiculous foundations, point out the imperfections of society and accurately notice the essence of the eternal problems between men and women, between virtues and vices, disputes about beauty and art, and much more.

Paradox as a literary phenomenon

Paradox is a characteristic feature of the style of a number of writers. In the Russian language dictionary S.I. Ozhegov gives the following definitions of the concept “paradox”:

1. A strange statement that diverges from generally accepted opinion, as well as an opinion that contradicts (sometimes only at first glance) common sense.

2. A phenomenon that seems incredible and unexpected.

The term “paradox” arose in ancient philosophy to characterize a new, unusual, original opinion. Since the originality of a statement is much easier to perceive than to verify its truth or falsity, paradoxical statements are often perceived as evidence of the independence and originality of the opinions they express, especially if they also have an outwardly effective, clear, aphoristic form.

Maxim Gorky spoke about paradox as a symbol in literature: “Truth upside down, gymnastics of the mind on a tight rope of concepts, generally accepted opinions and cliches, is a way to express one’s views, serves as a means of struggle against sanctimonious morality, stupidity, ignorance.”

An example of a paradoxical form of a statement can be found in philosophical and ethical generalizations, such as: “Your views are hateful to me, but all my life I will fight for your right to defend them” (Voltaire) or “People are cruel, but man is kind” (R. Tagore) .

The unexpectedness of conclusions, the inconsistency of their “natural” train of thought is (along with the general logical sequence of presentation and the beauty of style) one of the essential attributes of oratory.

Paradox - a certain verbal composition and as a figure of speech carries a large charge of stylistic information, is one of the effective means of influencing the reader. Researchers rightly note the need to study its specifics.

In his scientific article in the literary magazine “Vestnik” of Ryazan State University. S.A. Yesenina Fedoseeva T.V. and Ershova G.I. they come to the conclusion that “a literary paradox is an artistic device based on a contradiction to something given: a general opinion, a stereotype, or a deliberately created expectation.”

The authors name the following as differentiating features of a literary paradox that will distinguish it from other artistic techniques:

1. The paradox expresses the dialectical interaction of opposites. Unlike other methods of opposition - antithesis, oxymoron, catachresis - in its functioning it goes beyond the limits of artistic rhetoric.

2. In the contradiction of a paradox, the truth is always revealed. This paradox differs from the method of absurdity, in which the contradiction is self-sufficient and does not lead to the reconstruction of a holistic picture of the world.

3. The contradiction in life revealed by a paradox is always unexpected. This is what distinguishes it from the antithesis. The latter realizes the contradictions of the world, which are not a discovery for the reader (good - evil, light - darkness, hatred - love), while the paradox presents as contradictory concepts that initially were not such in the perceiving consciousness. An artistic paradox is characterized precisely by the unexpectedness of the opposition, designed to focus the reader’s attention on the problem identified by the author’s original thinking, to force him to reflect on it. To classify an artistic technique as a paradox, each of the three signs is necessary, while none of them is sufficient individually and has differentiating properties only in combination with the other two. Paradoxes find wide application in oral and written creativity. Thus, they largely underlie the poetics of proverbs (“If you drive more slowly, you will continue”, “Don’t rush, but hurry up”) (4) and a number of literary genres (for example, the famous fable “The Nobleman” by I.A. Krylov was built on the paradox: “The fool ruler goes to heaven... for laziness and idleness”). Paradox, as an artistic device, is widely used in children's poetry of absurdities by Lewis Carroll, E. Milne, E. Lear, K.I. Chukovsky.

The purpose of some paradoxes is to ridicule dogma, shock, and amaze with the originality of judgment. Usually such paradoxes are only a means of characterizing characters, but sometimes they express the views of the author to a certain extent (these are the paradoxes of many characters of I. S. Turgenev, O. Wilde, B. Shaw, A. France). A paradox can hide a deep thought, revealing irony: “The negation of a theory is already a theory” (I.S. Turgenev), “Now we declare that we will never be slaves; when we say that we will never be masters, then we will end slavery” (B. Shaw). Sometimes the paradox takes on the character of a philosophical generalization: “We most likely destroy what is dear to our hearts” (F.I. Tyutchev).

Sometimes plot situations or even entire works are based on paradox. Thus, in O. Wilde’s novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1891), the portrait of Dorian grows old, but he himself remains young; in B. Shaw's play “Bitter, but True” (1931) the microbe becomes infected from people; in R. Bradbury's novel “Fahrenheit 451” (1953), firefighters do not put out fires, but burn books.

Paradox gives a literary work wit and stylistic brilliance, and makes the author’s thoughts vivid and memorable. A good verbal paradox is short, clearly formulated, logically complete, effective and aphoristic.

Paradox, as a literary phenomenon, characterizes the work of English writers and playwrights of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who are united by hatred of Victorian England and rejection of its canons and rules. Their work is imbued with the desire to overthrow the false truths that the philistines worship from their pedestal. Among the writers famous for their paradoxes were F. La Rochefoucauld, J. L. La Bruyère, J. J. Rousseau, L. S. Mercier, P. J. Proudhon, G. Heine, T. Carlyle, A. Schopenhauer, A. France, especially M. Nordau, O. Wilde and, of course, the recognized master of paradoxes - Bernard. Shaw, who said: “Paradox is the only truth.”

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2. Paradox. Concept, examples

Moving on to the question of paradoxes, one cannot help but say about their relationship with sophisms. The fact is that sometimes there is no clear line by which you can understand what you are dealing with.

However, paradoxes are considered with a much more serious approach, while sophistry often plays the role of a joke, nothing more. This is due to the nature of theory and science: if it contains paradoxes, it means that the underlying ideas are imperfect.

The foregoing may mean that the modern approach to sophisms does not cover the entire scope of the problem. Many paradoxes are interpreted as sophisms, although they do not lose their original properties.

Paradox one can call reasoning that proves not only the truth, but also the falsity of a certain judgment, that is, proving both the judgment itself and its negation. In other words, paradox- these are two opposing, incompatible statements, for each of which there are seemingly convincing arguments.

One of the first and, of course, exemplary paradoxes was recorded Eubulide- Greek poet and philosopher, Cretan. The paradox is called "Liar". This paradox has come down to us in this form: “Epimenides claims that all Cretans are liars. If he is telling the truth, then he is lying. Is he lying or telling the truth? This paradox is called the “king of logical paradoxes.” To date, no one has been able to resolve it. The essence of this paradox is that when a person says: “I am lying,” he is neither lying nor telling the truth, but, more precisely, doing both at the same time. In other words, if we assume that a person is telling the truth, it turns out that he is actually lying, and if he is lying, it means that he told the truth about it before. Both contradictory facts are stated here. Of course, according to the law of the excluded middle, this is impossible, but that is why this paradox received such a high “title”.

The inhabitants of the city of Elea, the Eleatics, made a great contribution to the development of the theory of space and time. They relied on the idea of the impossibility of non-existence, which belongs to Parmenides. Every thought according to this idea is a thought about what exists. At the same time, any movement was denied: the world space was considered integral, the world was one, without parts.

Ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea known for composing a series of paradoxes about infinity - the so-called aporia of Zeno.

Zeno, a student of Parmenides, developed these ideas, for which he was called Aristotle"the founder of dialectics." Dialectics was understood as the art of achieving truth in a dispute by identifying contradictions in the opponent’s judgment and destroying them.

"Achilles and the Tortoise" represents an aporia about movement. As you know, Achilles is an ancient Greek hero. He had remarkable abilities in sports. The turtle is a very slow animal. However, in aporia, Achilles loses a race to the tortoise. Let's say Achilles needs to run a distance equal to 1, and he runs twice as fast as the turtle, the latter needs to run 1/2. Their movement begins simultaneously. It turns out that, having run a distance of 1/2, Achilles will find that the tortoise managed to cover a distance of 1/4 in the same time. No matter how much Achilles tries to overtake the tortoise, it will be exactly 1/2 ahead. Therefore, Achilles is not destined to catch up with the turtle, this movement is eternal, it cannot be completed.

The inability to complete this sequence is that it is missing the last element. Each time we indicate the next member of the sequence, we can continue by indicating the next one.

The paradox here lies in the fact that the endless sequence of successive events actually must end, even if we could not imagine this end.

Another aporia is called "dichotomy". The reasoning is based on the same principles as the previous one. In order to go all the way, you need to go halfway. In this case, half the path becomes a path, and in order to pass it, it is necessary to measure half (that is, already half of the half). This continues ad infinitum.

Here the order of occurrence is inverted compared to the previous aporia, i.e. (1/2)n..., (1/2)3, (1/2)2, (1/2)1. The series here does not have a first point, while the aporia “Achilles and the Tortoise” did not have a last one.

From this aporia the conclusion is drawn that the movement cannot begin. Based on the considered aporias, the movement cannot end and cannot begin. That means he's gone.

Refutation of the "Achilles and the Tortoise" aporia.

As in the aporia, Achilles appears in its refutation, but not one, but two turtles. One of them is closer than the other. The movement also starts simultaneously. Achilles runs last. During the time that Achilles runs the distance separating them at first, the nearest turtle will have time to crawl somewhat forward, which will continue indefinitely. Achilles will get closer and closer to the tortoise, but will never be able to catch up with it. Despite the obvious falsity, there is no logical refutation of such a statement. However, if Achilles begins to catch up with the distant turtle, not paying attention to the nearby one, he, according to the same aporia, will be able to get close to it. And if so, then he will overtake the nearest turtle.

This leads to a logical contradiction.

To refute the refutation, that is, to defend the aporia, which in itself is strange, they propose to throw away the burden of figurative ideas. And reveal the formal essence of the matter. Here it should be said that the aporia itself is based on figurative ideas, and to reject them means to refute it too. And the refutation is quite formal. The fact that instead of one in the refutation there are two turtles does not make it more figurative than an aporia. In general, it is difficult to talk about concepts that are not based on figurative ideas. Even such highly abstract philosophical concepts as being, consciousness and others are understood only thanks to the images corresponding to them. Without the image behind the word, the latter would remain only a set of symbols and sounds.

Stages imply the existence of indivisible segments in space and the movement of objects in it. This aporia is based on the previous ones. Take one stationary row of objects and two moving towards each other. Moreover, each moving row in relation to the non-moving row passes only one segment per unit of time. However, in relation to the moving one - two. Which is considered contradictory. It is also said that in the intermediate position (when one row has already moved, but the other has not) there is no room for a stationary row. The intermediate position arises from the fact that the segments are indivisible and the movement, even if started at the same time, must go through an intermediate stage when the first value of one moving row coincides with the second value of the second (movement under the condition of indivisibility of the segments is devoid of smoothness). The state of rest is when the second values of all series coincide. A stationary row, if we assume the simultaneous movement of the rows, must be in an intermediate position between the moving rows, but this is impossible, since the segments are indivisible.

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A paradox is an unusual, unusual, contradictory situation that stands out from the general order. This situation has no logical explanation and is not explained by generally accepted laws and canons.

The following types of paradoxes are distinguished:

Brain teaser. For example, the paradox of a lottery ticket: often people understand that their ticket will not win, but at the same time one ticket must be lucky, which means that one of them must be the winner.

Mathematical, which are characterized by increased complexity. For example, there is a painter's paradox: an infinite area of a figure can be painted with a limited amount of paint.

Philosophical. An example is the well-known dilemma: what comes first - the chicken or the egg? For a chicken to appear, you need an egg, and vice versa. Another famous example is Buridan's donkey's choice between two equally accessible and good haystacks.

Physical. For example, the “murdered grandfather” paradox. If a person who could travel through time went back in time and killed his grandfather before he met his grandmother, he would not have been born, and therefore he himself would not have been born. It follows that he could not kill his biological grandfather.

Economic. A striking example is the paradox of frugality. It says that in a crisis situation, people do not need to start saving, otherwise it will reduce demand and ruin business systems, which means falling wages and rising unemployment.

The influence of paradoxes in everyday life

Examples of paradoxes can be seen very often in everyday life. For example, the French paradox says that thanks to red wine, French residents have a strong cardiovascular system. And this is despite the large amount of food consumption that is oversaturated with fats and carbohydrates.

And also the paradoxical effect of road expansion on increasing the number of traffic jams. This was proven by the German Friedrich Bress.

Marketing paradoxes say that people often act differently than they initially intended. For example, according to surveys, Russians speak negatively about Chinese items and goods, but at the same time, sales of such items are growing daily. This confirms Richard LaPierre's paradox, which manifests itself in the discrepancy between social attitudes recorded in verbal responses and behavior in real life.

Visitors to Wikipedia once noticed that if you click on the first link in each article, sooner or later you will still come across one of the articles dedicated to. The explanation for this phenomenon is very simple: almost all achievements of modern culture, science and technology are created on the basis of philosophical theories and paradoxes invented in ancient times.

In this article we have collected for you some interesting examples and stories that philosophers have used to illustrate their ideas. Many of them are already more than two thousand years old, but they still do not lose their relevance.

Buridanov's donkey

Buridan's donkey is a philosophical paradox named after Jean Buridan, despite the fact that it was known from the works of Aristotle.

A donkey stands between two completely identical haystacks. Unable to choose any of them, he wastes time evaluating each of the options. As a result of delay, the donkey becomes hungrier and hungrier, and the cost of the decision increases. Having failed to choose any of the equivalent options, the donkey eventually dies of hunger.

This example is, of course, taken to the point of absurdity, but it perfectly illustrates that sometimes freedom of choice turns into a complete absence of any freedom. If you try to weigh similar options as rationally as possible, you may lose both. In this case, any step is better than an endless search for the optimal solution.

The Myth of the Cave

The myth of the cave is a famous allegory used by Plato in his dialogue “The Republic” to explain his doctrine of ideas. Considered the cornerstone of Platonism and objective idealism in general.

Imagine a tribe that is condemned to live in a deep cave. Its members have shackles on their legs and arms that prevent them from moving. Several generations have been born in this cave, their only source of knowledge being the faint reflections of light and muffled sounds reaching their senses from the surface.

Now imagine what these people know about life outside?

And then one of them took off his shackles and reached the entrance to the cave. He saw the sun, trees, amazing animals, birds soaring in the sky. Then he returned to his fellow tribesmen and told them about what he had seen. Will they believe him? Or will they consider the gloomy picture of the underworld that they have seen with their own eyes all their lives to be more reliable?

Never discard ideas just because they seem absurd to you and don’t fit into your usual picture of the world. Perhaps all your experiences are just dim reflections on a cave wall.

The paradox of omnipotence

This paradox is about trying to understand whether a creature that is able to perform any action can do something that would limit its ability to perform the actions.

Can an omnipotent being create a stone that he himself cannot lift?

It may seem to you that this philosophical problem is purely speculative pampering, completely divorced from life and practice. However, it is not. The paradox of omnipotence has enormous implications for religion, politics, and social life.

So far this paradox remains unresolved. We can only assume that absolute omnipotence does not exist. This means that we still always have a chance to win.

Chicken and egg paradox

Everyone has probably heard about this paradox. The discussion of this problem first appeared in the works of classical philosophers of Ancient Greece.

What came first: the chicken or the egg?

At first glance, the problem seems unsolvable, since the appearance of one element is impossible without the existence of another. However, the complexity of this paradox lies in its vague formulation. The solution to the problem depends on what is meant by the concept of “chicken’s egg”. If a chicken egg is an egg laid by a chicken, then the first was, naturally, a chicken that did not hatch from a chicken egg. If a chicken egg is an egg from which a chicken hatches, then the first was a chicken egg, not laid by a chicken.

Every time you are given an unsolvable problem, carefully read its conditions. Sometimes this is where the path to the answer lies.

Achilles and the tortoise

This paradox is attributed to Zeno of Elea, an ancient Greek philosopher, a famous representative of the Eleatic school. With its help, he tried to prove the inconsistency of the concepts of movement, space and multitude.

Let's say Achilles runs 10 times faster than the tortoise and is 1,000 steps behind it. While Achilles runs this distance, the tortoise will crawl 100 steps in the same direction. When Achilles runs 100 steps, the tortoise crawls another 10 steps and so on. The process will continue ad infinitum, Achilles will never catch up with the tortoise.

Despite the obvious absurdity of this statement, it is not so easy to refute it. In search of a solution, serious debates are being held, various physical and mathematical models are being built, articles are being written and dissertations are being defended.

For us, the conclusion from this problem is very simple. Even if all the scientific luminaries stubbornly claim that you will never catch up with the turtle, you should not give up. Just try it.

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. This concept was born in Ancient Greece and means counterintuitive opinion.

In a broad sense, the word paradox is a phenomenon, situation, event that seems incredible and does not correspond to people’s usual ideas about reality due to an unusual context.

Paradox is when the impossible is possible

The essence of a paradoxical judgment is that once you begin to consider and explore it, you will gradually find logic, a sound grain and you will come to the conclusion that the impossible is possible.

To better understand a term, you need to refer to its antonym (?). Such a paradox is the word traditionality, constancy, verification. In the same sense, the paradox is described as unexpected, original, unusual.

To anticipate confusion, you should also learn distinguish paradox from aporia. If the first is an illogical truth, then the second is a logical fiction.

P.S. If you don’t know the answer to the geometric riddle above, then don’t rush to classify it as the topic of today’s article. No, this is just an aporia (a clever trick that misleads). See details below (point 5 in examples).

In any science The tool for cognition and theoretical proof is logical thinking. Experimenters often discover paradoxes due to the appearance of two or more research results that contradict each other. However, in some cases such discrepancies are just errors made during the experimental experiment. Therefore, in the scientific community, the paradox is a useful phenomenon, as it motivates scientists to look for additional methods for studying theory and to minimize the distortion of reality.
In logic- this is a logically correct judgment that contradicts two or more conclusions that follow from it.
In art paradoxes are used as techniques to attract attention. The human psyche is designed in such a way that people always distinguish from the crowd what seems unusual: novelty attracts and arouses interest. Paradoxes in art are divided into:
1. musical - consist in the use of unusual sounds separately or their fragments, sharply different from traditional ones;
2. artistic - used by writers, artists, poets, film actors, circus performers, journalists.
3. literary - for example, used in text or headings (verbal paradoxes - incompatible things)
In philosophy There are often paradoxical statements and aporias. You will find examples of them below.

Examples of paradoxes

To further understand and grasp the meaning of this concept, I will give classic, world-famous examples.

Classic - what came first, the chicken or the egg? But something has to come first:
The Liar Paradox. If he says, “I’m lying now,” then it can be neither a lie nor the truth.
The paradox of a surprise execution: A man condemned to death was promised that he would be hanged unexpectedly at noon next week on a weekday. The convict began to reason: I won’t be hanged on Friday, since it won’t be a surprise, because after Thursday comes only Friday will remain.
They won’t be able to execute him on Thursday either, since after Wednesday that won’t be a surprise either. Thus, he excluded all days of the week and concluded that the hanging would not take place. At this point the man calmed down, but on Wednesday exactly at noon the executioner came to him, which was very unexpected. The judge's prediction came true.
The paradox of omnipotence– if someone omnipotent creates such a heavy object that he cannot move it from its place, then he ceases to be omnipotent. And if this someone is not able to create this stone, then he is also not omnipotent.
Pseudo-paradox with triangles- a little higher you could see a geometric incident with a rearrangement of the blue and red triangle. It seems that a miracle happened and the area of the total figure decreased by one cell. In fact, this is also an aporia, i.e. logical looking deception:
Time paradox The myth of Achilles and the tortoise demonstrates well. Achilles chased the turtle, having previously given it a head start of 30 meters. Let's take it for granted that both runners start running at the same time, but at different speeds - Achilles is faster, the tortoise is slower. Having covered a distance of 30 meters, the person finds himself at the point from which the turtle started. She, in turn, also managed to move forward, about a meter. Next, Achilles needs to overcome this meter, but the turtle has already moved further. Every time a person reaches the extreme point at which the animal was, the latter will already be at the next one. And since there is an infinite number of points, following this logic, it is not possible to catch up with the turtle.
Monty Hall Paradox- it’s more of mathematics (probability theory), but it looks impressive:
Endless Hotel:
tells the story of a stubborn animal who starved to death, unable to decide which pile of hay was bigger and tastier. The paradox is that, given the availability of sufficient food, the donkey absurdly gave up his soul to God for lack of it due to his own indecisiveness.
Sorites' Paradox: Let's say a sand pile consists of a million grains of sand. If you remove one of them, the heap remains a heap. After the second grain of sand is removed, the heap will still not lose its status. What happens when the last grain of sand remains? In theory, a heap is no longer a heap.
For the statement to be logical, it is necessary either to initially deprive a million grains of sand of the status of a heap, or to call one grain of sand it.
Zeno's Arrow: we can call movement the change in the position of an object at each moment of time (at this infinitesimal moment it is here, and at the next it is a little further away). But at any given moment in time the arrow is immobilized. That is, both the flying and the lying arrow do not move. There is no movement at all.

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What is a paradox - examples from life. What is a paradox - simply about the complex (with examples). Ship of Theseus Paradox

Introduction

Paradox as a literary phenomenon

The influence of paradoxes in everyday life

Buridanov's donkey

The Myth of the Cave

The paradox of omnipotence

Chicken and egg paradox

Achilles and the tortoise

Paradox is when the impossible is possible

Examples of paradoxes