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The Birth of Tragedy
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1872 essay by Friedrich Nietzsche
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This irreverent belief that the great sages were decadent types, first occurred to me precisely in regard to that case concerning which both learned and vulgar prejudice was most opposed to my view. I recognised Socrates and Plato as symptoms of decline, as instruments in the disintegration of Hellas, as pseudo-Greek, as anti-Greek (“The Birth of Tragedy,” 1872). That _consensus sapientium,_ as I perceived ever more…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols
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Whatever may lie at the bottom of this doubtful book must be a question of the first rank and attractiveness, moreover a deeply personal question,--in proof thereof observe the time in which it originated, _in spite_ of which it originated, the exciting period of the Franco-German war of 1870-71. While the thunder of the battle of Wörth rolled over Europe, the ruminator and riddle-lover, who had to be the parent of…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
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Tragedy is to be regarded, and is recognised as the summit of poetical art, both on account of the greatness of its effect and the difficulty of its achievement. It is very significant for our whole system, and well worthy of observation, that the end of this highest poetical achievement is the representation of the terrible side of life. The unspeakable pain, the wail of humanity, the triumph of evil, the scornful…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
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Philosophers who discussed The Birth of Tragedy
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
- The World as Will and Representation
- Human condition
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Aeschylus
- Nihilism
- Philology
- Pessimism
- Socrates
- Sophocles
- Thomas Mann
- Age of Enlightenment
- Apollonian and Dionysian
- Apollo
- Friedrich Schiller
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Euripides
- Erwin Rohde
- Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
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Part of Lebensphilosophie.