Thursday, February 11, 2016

Dionysian, Species-Principle, Capitalism, Marxism

Nietzsche conceives the Dionysian as his version of Schopenhauer's Will to Live.  However, while the latter is plainly a principle of all biological nature, Nietzsche treats the former as one that is specific to Humans.  In other words, it is his Species-principle.  Now, according to the descriptions in Birth of Tragedy, in the ancient Dionysian festivals, not only class, but even individual, distinctions are dissolved.  Thus, his Species-principle is inherently neither Capitalist nor Marxist.  For, Individuality is inessential to it, and Revolution is not its resolution of Class-Conflict.

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