Art's
Role in the Battle between Nature and Civilization Page 6
Nietzche is basically creating a cycle. Once we have a culture
or civilization that helps us achieve our rational needs, we seek
what we do not have in the dionysian. Nietzche claims that the
apollinians make use of a veil to view the nature. They create
an illusion to satisfy their need, but is the need then satisfied
if it is only an illusion? Either way, a cycle has appeared and
the dialectic relationship can be further examined.
When we reach the full extent of apollinian civilization, we find
a need for what is missing from order, which is nature. Likewise,
in nature, while we might achieve true peace, there is the ever-present
need for protection. This protection comes from civilization,
or the apollinian. This is the main dialectical relationship that
causes the tension in Nietzsche's argument. Nietzsche then uses
art to show that these tensions can be eased.
While the dionysian and the apollinian are very different in their
core, art can bridge the two and allow them to coexist. This is
because art relieves the tension of one's tendency towards the
other. In other words, the apollinian will not be drawn back towards
the dionysian if art is there to suppress the need and fulfill
what is not there.
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