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Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Life Gets Meaning Through Art

Schopenhauer thinks that art is a saving grace, that we can live. The best you could do is what a stoic would do, is to hold tight and wait for your life to be over. That is the lesson of selinus. Art and philosophy are ways that we can living even happily in a world that is ultimately horrible.

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