What is the metaphysics of tragedy to Hegel?Tragedy is rooted in spirit. Its source is a division in the ethical substance, that is, in the spiritual forces that rule and propel the realm of men's deeds and desires. It is a violent collision -- not of the good with the bad -- but of the good with the good, of spiritual powers, of an ideal or an institution, such as the state, with -- for example -- the family. It is a conflict between two rights.
Hegel says:
"The sphere of this content, although capable of great variety of detail, is not in its essential features very extensive. The principal source of opposition, which Sophocles in particular (in this respect following the lead of Aeschylus) has accepted and worked out in the finest way, is that of the body politic, the opposition, that is, between ethical life in its social universality and the family as the natural ground of moral relations. These are the purest forces of tragic representation" ( IV, p. 318).
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