Nietzsche's Faust Is the Dream of Alexandrianism

The tragedy of Dr. Faustus is that it, the Alexandrian socratic impulse or whatever that's embodied in Faust is shown to have failed and hit a sort of dead end. I think this is why Nietzsche enjoyed Faust so much and quotes from it so much in this first book,. even if you would later have his criticisms of the play. And so this sort of correlates with the view of Alexandria in culture that optimism and the delusion of limitless power could actually bring us the zenith of human happiness as Faust hoped for. That that's the dream of Alexandrianism and Faust is sort of the, in some sense, that is the tragedy of Doctor Faustus.