
Birth of Tragedy #7: 18-21 (Alexandrianism)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Nietzsche's Propositional Definition of Culture
Nietzsche says, quote, to say nothing of the more vulgar and almost more powerful illusions which the will always has at hand in quotes. So these might be things, illusions like that seeking after pleasure could actually provide some sort of fulfillment in the ultimate scheme of things, right? Or something like that. And so his provisional definition that he's working with in this text is that culture is the series of illusions provided to civilized human beings who no longer can just abide with more simple illusions or inducements to life but need a more complex illusion.
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