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語源

Creon +‎ -ic

形容詞

Creonic (comparative more Creonic, superlative most Creonic)

1. Resembling or characteristic of Creon, especially as portrayed in Sophocles' play Antigone: intolerant of those who disagree, holding onto and enforcing power, and indifferent to religious convention.
   • 1995, Andrew Cutrofello, The Owl at Dawn: A Sequel to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, →ISBN, page 2:

     For so long as the judging consciousness refuses to recognize his own evil, he remains stubbornly Creonic.

   • 2001, Martha C. Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness, →ISBN:

     Only the person who balances self-protection with yielding in this way can be either a lover or a friend: for the completely passive victim cannot act to help another, and the Creonic agent cannot see otherness.

   • 2012, T. Erskine & R. Lebow, Tragedy and International Relations, →ISBN:

     Indeed, seeing the world oppositionally is 'Creonic', by which I mean it is part of his strategy of ordering the world into 'with me or against me', impugning the motives of anyone who disagrees with him and insisting on his sanity as opposed to the insanity of Antigone.

   • 2012, Zachariah Rush, Beyond the Screenplay: A Dialectical Approach to Dramaturgy, →ISBN, page 27:

     Creaon has expressly commanded that Polyneices not be given a burial, but his sister Antigone knows that the gods require such evidence of piety and the Sophoclean drama is born from this conflict between Antigonean spirituality and Creonic secularity.