
Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Apollonian Dimension
I was thinking of seven as primarily, and the rest of it as an argument for the importance of the dionysian ment. Life may go off the rails if you don't learn how to focus this experience in some way. Tragedy finds its ground in this wild, violent canabaria. There's no meaning that you can draw from that experience. The chorus doesn't give any context. If you just experience it as these satiric creatures, this representation of nature, right? It has to have some context, as you mentioned. You have to see that in relation to your own experience now, and that's the apollonian dimension. I mean, at least we
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