
Birth of Tragedy #3: 4-7 ("Objective" v/s "Subjective" Art)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Hamlet and the Dionycian Man
A hamlet is portrayed as a character with, like a in netian terms, who has glimpsed the dionycian the primordial pain in contradiction. They feel it to be ridiculous or humiliating that they should be asked to set right a world that is out of joint. Both have once looked into the true essence of things. They have gained knowledge. And nausea inhibits action. For their action could not change anything in the eternal nature of things. Knowledge kills action. Action requires the veils of illusion. That is the doctrine of hamlet,. Not that cheap wisdom of jack the dreamer who reflects too much and from an excess of possibilities does not get around to action.
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