Friday, August 9, 2019

Logos, Dionysus, Apollo

Nietzsche's Dionysian and Apollonian principles are derived from the Ancient deities Dionysus and Apollo, and their relation is modeled on Schopenhauer's Will-Representation version of Kant's Noumenon-Phenomenon duality.  Another Ancient deity of Philosophical significance is the Logos, the principle of which is the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and which is constituted as a continuum between the Principle and what it grounds, illustrated by Emanation, as has been previously discussed.  So, the demise of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, corresponding to the "death", according to Nietzsche, of the Dionysian-Apollonian combination, i. e. Tragedy, is the severing of the Principle of Sufficient Reason from what it grounds, perhaps most effectively by Parmenides, resulting in the long Dualist tradition in Philosophy.  But part of that tradition is Schopenhauer's Will-Representation pair.  Hence, so, too, is Nietzsche's Dionysian-Apollonian pair part of that Dualist tradition.  Thus, his effort to recover some long-repressed Philosophical Principles does not go far enough.

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