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Birth of Tragedy #8: 22-25 (Conclusion)

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche's Catharsis of Aristotle

Nietzsche says that the relief from negative feelings is not what the tragic is. The serious events are supposed to prop pity and fear to discharge themselves in a way that relieves us, he writes. He also mentions another thing, the purgation of the emotions through tragedy, purging negative emotions. But it plainly follows that all these men together with their interpreting as the Titians have had no experience of tragedy as a supreme art,.

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