
Birth of Tragedy #7: 18-21 (Alexandrianism)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Nietzsche's Dismissal of Man as He Is Now Mankind as It Is
The idyllic romanticism is non-aesthetic and he says again he brings up sort of the danger that he sees this again Nietzschean elitism where he says uh okay so for us it's enough to have perceived that the essential charm. The conception of the primitive man as the man naturally good and artistic a principle of the opera has gradually changed into a threatening and terrible demand which in the face of contemporary socialistic movements we can no longer ignore the good primitive man wants his rights.
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