/lit/ - Literature

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>>mysticists
>>spiritualists
>>romanticists
>aren't
>>poets and artists
>>music connoisseurs
>>seekers of non consolatory philosophies to counter nihilism
>nietzsche was a materialist and determinist
"Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems; the will to life rejoicing over its own inexhaustibly even in the very sacrifice of its highest types---that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I understood as2 the bridge to the psychology of the tragic poet. Not in order to get rid of terror and pity, not in order to purge oneself of a dangerous affect by its vehement discharge---Aristotle misunderstood it that way-but in order to be oneself the eternal joy of becoming, beyond all terror and pity---that joy which includes even joy in destroying." In this sense I have the right to understand myself as the first tragic philosopher---that is, the most extreme opposite and antipode of a pessimistic philosopher. Before me this transposition of the Dionysian into a philosophical pathos did not exist: tragic wisdom was lacking; I have looked in vain for signs of it even among the great Greeks in philosophy, those of the two centuries before Socrates. I retained some doubt in the case of Heraclitus, in whose proximity I feel altogether warmer and better than anywhere else. The affirmation of passing away and destroying, which is the decisive feature of a Dionysian philosophy; saying Yes to opposition and war; becoming, along with a radical repudiation of the very concept of being---all this is clearly more closely related to me than anything else thought to date. The doctrine of the "eternal recurrence that is, of the unconditional and infinitely repeated circular course of all things---this doctrine of Zarathustra might in the end have been taught already by Heraclitus. At least the Stoa has traces of it, and the Stoics inherited almost all of their principal notions from Heraclitus.

Nietzsche never fully read the 'late Neoplatonists', the true Dionysians, which is a great shame.