From: "Pedro Augusto Parga" <pedro-AT-mls.com.br>
Subject: Apolo vs. Dionysus
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 23:13:11 -0300


Hi all.

I am a brazilian student and have recently started to try to learn N.'s
thought. As you seem to have gone out of topics for a while, I decided to
bother you with some questions :)
I ran into some problems interpreting Nietzsche. Could someone explain me if
there really is a contradiction between the concept of authenticity and the
dionysian (sorry for the bad spelling) experience? Because this experience
is one of unicity between man and nature, and man and man, and where all the
borders of the individual are eliminated. I mean for this experience a
happening like the Bacants (!?), often quoted by Nietzsche.
As for science and it's role in Nietzsche's thought, I believe he adopted a
perspectivism that could not assume the scientific/rational explanations of
nature as an utter truth. They would only be a manifestation of the will to
power of man trying to control nature. That's why he calls science the
"usefull fiction".
I believe he does not want to teach man to live without reason,
irrationally, but rather not making a "tyranny of reason". That means we
must see reason as a tool, not being dominated by its product, the
rational/Kantian moral.



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