... as a kid or playing a part in theater; everyone has their own role. In theater performed plays there is always a director behind the story. Great writers and philosophers such as Aristotle, Socrates, Nietzsche, Sophocles, and Shakespeare have paved the way for many imaginative play writers and authors to this day. There is something that drives every writer, something within them that creates ... to matter us. What did god mean who advised man to 'know thyself'"? Did he mean "Cease to matter to yourself! Become objective!"? And what about Socrates? And the "scientist"?"(Nietzsche 7...

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... each scene, a depth that does not justify itself, for this very occult nature can have no justification except in its own appearance, nothing further is required of it. Euripides -with Socrates speaking through him- whom Nietzsche charges with th! e death of tragedy, could not see the value in the representation of the titanic, terrible beauty of the Dionysian. Nietzsche writes the ... Nietzsche's description of Socratism is by no means straightforwardly negative. The first of these we will return to later whilst the second bears our immediate attention. Nietzsche tells us that Socrates...

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... modes are dangerous and strong censorship must be imposed. This idea of music moving the emotions is what made Plato such the musical disciplinarian that he was. In his republic, Socrates says, "Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting ... ...

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