
Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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What Do You Mean by Transgressiveness?
There is an ancient popular belief, particulary in persia, that a wise magician can only be born out of incest. The same man who solves the riddle of nat that of the double natured sphinx, must also destroy the most sacred orders of nature by murdering his father and becoming his mother's husband. So we must immediately interpret this to mean that where prophetic and magical powers have broken the spell of present and future, some enormously unnatural event such as incess,. must have occurred earlier. Did you skip over the part about individuation? I did, which i actually, which actually like.
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