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Birth of Tragedy #7: 18-21 (Alexandrianism)

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche Capitulates to Schopenhauer's Assessment of Life, Right?

Nietzsche doesn't share in Schopenhauer's assessment of life as something that we should or ought to repudiate. He says, quote, he's describing here the different illusions that life can use to detain us in life and compel us to live on. And again, this goes back to the pessimism of strength, but versus pessimism of weakness, distinction he makes in the preface.

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