Reasons For The Birth Of Tragedy

The tragedy is an interesting topic. The ancient Greek tragedy of creative practice is the inexhaustible source of the theories of Western tragedy. Aristotle was the first person studying tragedy in systematic way. The idea of Aristotle’s about tragedy embody in the "Poetics". Aristotle’s theory of tragedy is focus on the effect of tragedy on the audience.Aristotle thus put forward his tragedy theory keywords:"compassion"、"fear" and "purification"and so on. Hegel’s theory of tragedy is another peak of Western tragedy idea. Hegel put the concept of conflict into the tragedy of studying so as to enrich the development of the Western theory of tragedy. Nietzsche’s theory of tragedy focused on his early masterpiece "The Birth of Tragedy". This book interpreted the birth of ancient Greek tragedy from the perspective of the occurrence, accompany with the Dionysian ecstasy. Because of this work Nietzsche prides himself on the name of tragedy philosopher. We can also think this problem in another point. Aristotle’s tragedy doctrine is the doctrine about the impact of the readers, Hegel’s theory of tragedy is about the tragedy text and the impetus of the tragedy, and Nietzsche’s tragedy study is on the occurrence of the tragedy. In other words, these three great tragedy masters gave us a profound exposition about the tragedy "four elements" that the world, the author, the text and the reader The theory of tragedy could fill volumes."The Birth of Tragedy" is the early work of the tragic philosopher Nietzsche. This is one work falling upon the courage and the sad of young people. In this work, two topics was discussed in-depth. One is what is the significance of the world and life; The other is a critique of Socrates as the ancestor of modern rationalism. The author discusses the first question about the Dionysian phenomenon as a starting point to understand the prosperity of Greek art, and thus make his own art metaphysics. Nietzsche’s artistic metaphysics is essentially an Aestheticism. From Nietzsche’s view, life and art in the world in essentially is the same thing. That is, only as an aesthetic phenomenon, died of survival have sufficient grounds. Nietzsche was the first philosopher to understand the Dionysian spirit phenomenon from a psychological perspective. The second question is embodied in Nietzsche’s profound critique of modern rationalism. Socrates.in Nietzsche’s perspective, was to be as a basis for the decline of Greek art at the first time. We also will find that these two topics is essentially a problem in two aspects:the value of the life and the world, In his work. Nietzsche gave us his Dionysian world view, denial of the rational view of the world of Socrates. Dionysian worldview confirms the life and the life instinct. Rational view of the world emphasizes the meaning of life by the endless pursuit of scientific knowledge."The Birth of Tragedy" has multiple discourse implications. This paper attempts to interpret the reasons for the birth of tragedy from three sides:the relationship between man and nature, the life experience of the birth of tragedy and the artistic demands of the birth of tragedy. The separation of man and nature can be seen as the root cause of the birth of tragedy. By men’s own reason and wisdom,they create a modern culture, but man were bounded of their own modem culture. This is perhaps the true meaning of the Dialectic of the Enlightenment! Man changed their own slave from the natural slave.Thus, The"Back to Nature" and reconstructed the lifestyle which man have in harmony with nature is the common aspiration of the modern cultural critics. In the family resemblance principle, Nietzsche’s idea of back to the Dionysian with "return to nature" is the same thing. About the birth of tragedy of life experience we can say that the tragedy was born in a robust life. Seems to Nietzsche, the Greeks are the most sound in the history of mankind, the most beautiful, the most enviable and the most rich. Why they must have tragedy? Nietzsche believes that this is for happiness, for the overact health, for the enriched survival; while they have favor about survival’s difficult, horror, evil and suspicious things; this is a kind of pain because of overly enrich born; a kind of seek because of courage. They desire terrible things like the desire for an opponent, the desire for a decent rival in order to test their own strength. In other words, when the Greeks were young and fit, they have a thirst for the ugly, for the tragic things. They have the will of pessimism, of course, this is a strong pessimism, They have the will above the basis of the survival terrible destruction and the unknown things. Which the tragedy come from? Tragedy born of happiness, self force, self overflowing health and raw from the excessive enrichment. The artistic demands of the birth of tragedy is the tragedy was born in the spirit of music. In Nietzsche’s view, the music is Thing in itself, according to Kant; The music is not a phenomenon, more than the phenomenon of imitation; The music is World will itself. according to Schopenhauer not the will of the corresponding object. The music has its own metaphysical nature of the philosophical level. Music transcends all phenomena in nature, and prior to all phenomena. But music has the ability to create the image. The ability to create the image initiated the lyrics, and its ability to create the image reached its climax in ancient Greek tragedy.The tragedy is the crystallization of Dionysian music pursuit of figurative. This is a healthy baby."The Birth of Tragedy" has lots to talk!...