The Experience of Aidós as a Condition of Piety According to María Zambrano

Abstract

The text will expose the basis of the notion of piety postulated by Maria Zambrano in relation to the Greek idea of aidós; for this purpose, we will start from a minimal description of aidós in two classical examples, namely, the Apollo-Hector relationship in canto XXIV of the Iliad and the Artemis-Hippolytus relationship in Euripides' Hippolytus. Once the concept is framed, we will move on to Maria Zambrano's approach in El hombre y lo divino; we will make a description of the structure of the work up to the point where it deals with the notion of piety, in Greek seat from the texts of the first Plato and according to the treatment linked to the mission of Socrates in the city. Finally, we will describe the religious function of tragedy as an "office of piety". Having presented the concept in a philosophical and religious context, we will now move on to analyze the author's approach to the space that piety occupies in philosophy, its original belonging, but its historical disengagement. As a coda, the author exemplifies this uprooting of the original vision in La tumba de Antígona. This work revisits the explanations of the Sophoclean myth and exposes its interpretation of piety.