
Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Apollonian Illusion
Schopenhauer says the thing in itself is the will, and appearance is the objectification of the will. The apollonians think that they here's the connection to socrates again. So you can be a purely aesthetic apollonian, but then if you become a philosopher as an apollonian,. then you think you drill under that to the underlying, istent unity, the forms. But if you embrace the hard truth that the whole point of the apollonian cultural movement is to put a shield in front of us, to cover up the truth. And the truth, according to nita, is exactly what schopenhauer said.
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