Birth of Tragedy #1: Attempt At Self-Criticism/Preface to Wagner
The Nietzsche Podcast
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What Is the Significance of the Tragic Myth Among the Greeks of the Best, the Strongest, the Most Courageous Period?
Nicha asks, is there a pessimism of strength, an intellectual predilection for the hard, gruesome, evil, problematic aspect of existence? And so with what we've already established to the background of this book, i think what neach's driving at should be a very easy to see here so far. On that level, pessimism can be a coping mechanism to explain to yourself, or rationalize to yourself, why doing nothing is actually the appropriate thing to do. Because why would it? Why would you need to? Why struggle anyway? You're just going to lose, right?
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