Friday, February 12, 2016

Individuation, Atomization, Diversification

Nietzsche's Apollonian is his version of Schopenhauer's Principle of Individuation.  Like not only this but most every predecessor, he interprets Individuation as Atomization, and, thus, the Individual-Collective relation as antithetical, which he sees resolved in Tragedy.  However, Individuation can also be interpreted as Diversification, with Individuals as, thus, parts of a whole, in which case the antithesis that besets Modern Political Philosophy disappears.

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