Nietzsche's Catharsis Model Is Not a Moral Justification

Gert Gertz: Tragedy is an aesthetic justification for life, tragedy. It's not a moral justification. These other interpretations of tragedy as the sacrifice of the hero in the interest of a moral vision of the universe are all moral diagnoses of what tragedy is. And notice Nietzsche talks about the pathological discharge, the catharsis of Aristotle. So Gert feels that he actually has to fixate on the pathological in order to elaborate a tragic scene or tragic characters. He basically concludes with the idea that, wow, how different must we be from the Greeks that for them, this is mere aesthetic play.