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Apollonian and Dionysian Apollonian and Dionysian are terms used by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy (1872) to designate the two central principles in Greek culture. Nietzsche was challenging the usual view of Greek culture as ordered and serene, emphasizing instead the irrational element of frenzy
Apollonian and Dionysian Apollonian and Dionysian are terms used by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy (1872) to designate the two central principles in Greek culture. Nietzsche was challenging the usual view of Greek culture as ordered and serene, emphasizing instead the irrational element of frenzy found in the rites of Dionysus (the god of intoxication known to the Romans as Bacchus). Nietzsche associated the Apollonian tendency with the instinct for form, beauty, moderation, and symmetry. The Apollonian, which corresponds to Schopenhauer's principium individuationis ("principle of individua
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