... is introduced as the means that undermine and ultimately destroy Greek tragedy and the tragic outlook. Nietzsche shows, via a description of the development of art in ancient Greece, how the paradigm shifted from being instinctually to rationally based. In the older tragedies of Aeschylus we find unfathomable Dionysian depth hinted at behind each scene, a depth that does not justify itself, for ... appearance is an appearing, not an illusion. Nothing that happens here that was not within the realm of original possibility." (Haar p43 1996) It can thus be understood from this shift how to...

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