Friedrich Nietzsche - Socrates and the Greek tragedy

With the early text from Nietzsche's estate, one of Nietzsche's basic motifs appears. Using the example of the transition from Greek tragedy to Euripidean comedy and the pre-Socratics to Socrates, Nietzsche exemplifies his criticism of the hubris of rationality and the loss of a musical, intuitive access to the world. The "different artistic instincts", forms of knowledge and life that are still described with the terms of the Apollonian and Dionysian, are not about marking a dichotomy. Nietzsche emphasizes a mutual penetration and balance. For Nietzsche, the rational individual is also always a dividual, which, in addition to the separatingly structuring ratio, requires the complement of a relational, musical perception in the instinct of its tremendous participation.