PHIL 367 Lecture Notes - Sophist, Tyrant, Polytheism
13 Apr 2012
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According to nietzsche, life is justified in tragic myth as an aesthetic phenomenon. Music and the chorus play important roles as symbols of tragic myth. The birth of great art has nothing to do with politics, but the power of music and drama to represent the dionysian process without representing individuals except as transitory. Music is more primal than language; it invokes and echoes in an immediacy and complexity that language cannot achieve. Music is the dreamer; the stage is a dream. The dream is its own justification; the dreamer is content with the dream as a dream, and the dreamer doesn"t analyze the dream (no rational interpretation of the dream. ) The dream, the apolline, is the channeling/managing of the dionysian in such a way without moralizing. Most forms of art die slowly (a natural death), and are superceded by their beautiful children and disciples. However, tragedy died a violent suicide at the hands of.
