AN ANALYTICAL COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN PITY AND FEAR AND HIRI OTAPPA

Abstract

The Similarity and the difference in fear concerned to sin or sinful feeling can be assumed as the stimulus or arousing the moral or ethical behavior in the mind of all people. It can prevent the persons to perform the all bad deeds and cultivate the consciousness of pity and fear vie the important well-known works of literaturesof the world in various aspects. In the west, “The Poetics” written by the great Greek philosopher named “Aristotle” who intended to present the principle of rules in Tragedy and Comedy plays. This Principle is similar to the Buddhist Principle of “Lokapala Dhamma” that consists of Hiri : the fear to bad deeds or sinful doings and Otappa : the fear to the results of its. Therefore, Pity and Fear and Hiri and Otappa have important co-aspects of “Universal Morality” or “Universal Ethics” for the people all around the world