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

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche's Sense of Moral Pleasure

Nietzsche says tragedy doesn't necessarily show us the beautiful. He asks, what is it transfigure when it presents the world of appearance in the image of the suffering hero? How can the ugly and the disharmonic stimulate aesthetic pleasure? And often people demand moral purity, Nietzsche is demanding aesthetic purity.

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