
Birth of Tragedy #8: 22-25 (Conclusion)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Nietzsche's the Death of Apollo
Dionysus and Apollo must move in direct proportion to one another, right? So how great must Dionysus be among you if Apollo needs this magic to heal your madness? This does seem to contradict his earlier idea about the Hellenic Buddhist or Alexandrian culture. But only if we, I think maybe we can get around that by associating the Buddhist culture with these two art deities who do exist in this necessary relationship to one another. An intermediation between them is perhaps what Nietzsche hopes for when he talks about an artistic Socrates,.
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