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Birth of Tragedy #8: 22-25 (Conclusion)

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche's Myth-Making Art Is Just Required for Life

A culture only has as much value as it is able to eternalize us and our lives. And so he's that's a bit more concrete philosophically about what it means for the myth-making power to generate these religious ideas that give our lives meaning. He says the opposite of this happens when a people begins to comprehend itself historically and to smash the mythical works that surrounded. So there you have that. Even now this metaphysical drive still tries to create for itself a certainly attenuated form of transfiguration in the Socrates of science that strives for life.

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