The Birth of Tragedy & The Genealogy of Morals

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Two of Nietzsche's essential works explore the conflict between the moral and aesthetic approaches to life, the impact of Christianity on human values, the meaning of science, and the contrast between the Apollonian and Dionysian spirits. Although the Greeks, according to Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy, knew very well that life is terrible, inexplicable, and dangerous, they did not surrender to pessimism or rejection of life. Rather, they transmuted the world and human life in it through the medium of art. In doing so, they were able to say "yes" to the world as an aesthetic phenomenon in one of two modes: the Dionysian and the Apollonian. Translated by Francis Golffing.
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died 11 years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended. View titles by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Two of Nietzsche's essential works explore the conflict between the moral and aesthetic approaches to life, the impact of Christianity on human values, the meaning of science, and the contrast between the Apollonian and Dionysian spirits. Although the Greeks, according to Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy, knew very well that life is terrible, inexplicable, and dangerous, they did not surrender to pessimism or rejection of life. Rather, they transmuted the world and human life in it through the medium of art. In doing so, they were able to say "yes" to the world as an aesthetic phenomenon in one of two modes: the Dionysian and the Apollonian. Translated by Francis Golffing.

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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died 11 years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended. View titles by Friedrich Nietzsche

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