Birth of Tragedy #6: 14-17 (The Theoretic v/s the Tragic)
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Exploration of Greek Cheerfulness: Apollinian Culture to Alexandria
This chapter delves into the evolution of Greek cheerfulness from the naive innocence of the earlier Greeks battling darkness to the later Greeks' senile love of existence. It explores Nietzsche's perspective on Alexandrian cheerfulness as the triumph of the theoretical worldview over the tragic, resulting in an insatiable pursuit of optimistic knowledge.
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