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Craig White's Literature Courses Critical Sources
Notes to Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
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21 metaphor
Construction of Apolline world > underlying foundations
22 x-elevated morals
x-asceticism (*), spirituality, duty > rich and triumphant
existence that defies good or evil
fantastic exuberance of life
Silenus: best not to be born, or die soon
Greeks knew and felt horrors of existence
23 Etruscans
Titanic gods of fear > Olympic gods of joy
Life includes suffering haloed in a higher glory
Art = complement and apotheosis of existence
23 reverse Silenus’s wisdom
24 Apolline triumphs by resorting to illusions
Homer: individual dream artist > dream faculties of people
and nature
Greeks transfigure selves into Gods, see selves in higher
sphere
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