The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Philosophy, Non-Fiction, Classics, Writing, Music
ISBN: 9780140433395
Google: REValV-USqcC
Amazon: 0140433392
Goodreads: 2823
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 1876-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

(That’s not exactly what we’d say:

A thousand steps is woman’s way;

But however fast she covers ground

Man does it in a single bound.)

Once we understand the innermost core of the Prometheus myth – the necessity of sacrilege that confronts the Titanically striving individual – we must also immediately perceive the non-Apolline qualities of this pessimistic idea. For Apollo seeks to pacify individuals by drawing boundaries between them, and by repeatedly calling them to mind as the most sacred universal laws in his demands for self-knowledge and moderation. But lest the Apolline tendency should freeze all form into an Egyptian rigidity and coldness, lest the effort to prescribe the course and compass of the individual wave should still the motion of the lake, from time to time the Dionysiac flood-tide destroyed all the little circles with which the one-sided Apolline ‘will’ sought to captivate Hellenism. The sudden rise of the Dionysiac tide then takes upon its back the little individual wavelets, just as Prometheus’ brother, the Titan Atlas, took the world on his. This Titanic impulse to become the Atlas of all individuals, and on one’s broad back to bear them ever higher, ever further, is the bond that unites the Promethean and the Dionysiac. In this respect the Aeschylean Prometheus’ a Dionysiac mask, while in the profound longing for justice that I have already mentioned, Aeschylus reveals his paternal descent from Apollo, the god of individuation and of just boundaries, the god of understanding. And the two-faced nature of the Aeschylean Prometheus, at once Apolline and Promethean, might be expressed in this conceptual formula: ‘All that exists is just and unjust and equally justified in both.’

Your world, this! So that’s a world!21

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