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Where does Nietzsche state that destruction is necessary to creation?
I've read somewhere that Nietzsche argues that destruction is always necessary in order to create, I think that the reference was to "thus spoke Zarathustra" but I couldn't find it myself.
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Why does Nietzsche affirm excellence so much?
A recurring theme in Nietzsche's writings seems to be that humans should strive for excellence “the highest power and splendor possible to the type man”.
Im just wondering what it is about excellence ...
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What is the relationship between appraising art and philosophy?
I'm not quite sure of the relationship between philosophical systems and the appraisal of art. I know philosophy encompasses aesthetics, but I don't know if a system telling you how to appraise art is ...
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Nietzsche: Does visual art reaffirm life?
In the Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche states that life is justified through artistic creativity. He analyses the ancient Greek tragedies to further elaborate on his point. My question is: would his ...
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What sort of creativity do Nietzsche's higher men have?
The canonical example of a higher man is Goethe.
How would his art have been better if he had appeared after
Nietzsche?
I assume it would entail something dionysian, perhaps a means of ...
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Does Art require an Audience?
Nietzsche consistently throughout his writings argues for a monological conception of art--art that does not seek "witnesses" or an audience. Not only did the episode with Wagner force Nietzsche to ...
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Which contemporary philosophers explicitly engage with Nietzsche's statement that "God is dead"?
Which contemporary theorists, especially of art or poetry, explicitly and deliberately engage with Nietzsche's statement that "God is dead"?
Obviously Nietzsche has had a huge influence on post / ...
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Nietzsche's perspective in Philosophy of Art
What is the meaning of the pair Apollonian and Dionysian in Nietzsche's philosophy of art? In which work does Nietzsche expand his view?
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What did Nietzsche mean by monsters and the abyss?
What do you think Nietzsche meant by "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." (...
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Is mathematics an art?
I'm thinking of art in the traditional sense as visual, musical or literary.
Mathematics certainly requires technique, and hence one can say craftmanship. But whereas the production of an art (at ...
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What is Nietzsche's opinion on ethical criticism of art?
Recently, I have been quite interested in the intersection of ethics and aesthetics, or to be more specific, ethical criticism of art.
What would or did Nietzsche say about the following two problems?...
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Why does Nietzsche say in the Antichrist that Aristotle "saw in pity a sickly and dangerous state of mind"?
In The Antichrist, Nietzsche starts with a very heavy attack on the emotion of pity, making statements like:
Pity stands in opposition to all the tonic passions that augment the energy of the feeling ...
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