Friday, May 31, 2013

Dionysian, Comprehensiveness, Empowerment

In #6 of the 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' section of Ecce Homo, Nietzsche classifies "the most comprehensive soul" as a "concept of Dionysus".  Now, as has been previously discussed, in #257 of Beyond Good and Evil, Comprehensiveness is correlated with Power.  Accordingly, in its mature version, the Dionysian principle is transformed from a destroyer of Individuality to an empowerment of it, i. e. to a cumulative process, in which destruction becomes overcoming and retention, as phases of an increase in comprehensiveness.

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