
Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Why Tragedy Is Awesome?
As a cause, magician never reveals his tricks, except if that trick is killing his father and marrying his mother. He does talk about dionysus as the centrepiece of attic tragedy. And i think at that's important because of the emphasis he wants to put on the dionysian. You can't have the tragedy without the apollynian. Like we said earlier with music, the juice comes from dionysUS. That's the source. We may have been living in an era, or we may have been cut off from that juice for so long that we're reaching the point where the scientific attitude has reached its own limits.
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