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47: The Meaning of Life

The Nietzsche Podcast

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What Is the Good Life?

The tragic aesthetic is defined by emphasizing the beauty inherent to the fundamentally intropic nature of life. Anica believes that this experience occurs when we engage with the tragic because we are confronting the terrifying reality of life in such a manner that it does not immediately destroy us. And so we feel that we are, through the experience of tragic art, overcoming the terrifying nature of the world by encountering it and surviving it. The story seen in total, a tragic figure is somehow beautiful to us.

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