AHSS*1260 Final: Nietzsche Backgroound
Document Summary
Focus on book called the birth of tragedy (1872) Says nasty things about different groups of people. Broader questions on culture and great art: how it can enrich and serve of life. Named after two gods: apollo and dionysus. Very different and represent different artistic principles that gave birth to produce genre of art: tragedy. Said greek tragedy died because of socrates and his insistence hat everything had to be rationally explained and ordered and no room for irrationality. Admired arthur schopenhauer (buddistic: book called world as will and representation. About the world that we see, the world of common sense, the empirical world before us, the world of representation. We don"t grasp world that it is in itself because we can never get to them. Various ingredients like space and time are brought to experience through the human mind itself and not actually through experience through he 5 senses. There are things that make it the way they are.
