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Apollo 1 re: apollonian and dionysian by maral ziafathy, Sep 06, 19:22 re: apollonian and dionysian by Irma Nuno, Sep 08, 17:17 Appollonian and Dionysian by Yelena Shor, Sep 06, 14:52 hyper.vcsun.org /HyperNews/ntaylor/get/apollo1.html   (1208 words)

Nietzsche, Dionysus and Apollo Apollonian and Dionysian are terms used by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy to designate the two central principles in Greek culture. He used the names Apollonian and Dionysian for the two forces because Apollo, as the sun-god, represents light, clarity, and form, whereas Dionysus, as the wine-god, represents drunkenness and ecstasy. But this is clearly -- for those of you willing to explore -- part of Nietzsche's point: that is, to offer a new image, a philosopher who is not an Alexandrian academician, nor an Apollonian, but Dionysian. www.historyguide.org /europe/dio_apollo.html   (442 words)

The Aesthetic Life The survivor rejects both the Dionysian and Apollonian, and becomes as much of a corpse as the Buddhist, except he stays in the world and does not run away into a monastery. Modern man has taken all that is Apollonian and exalted it as the only truth, and denigrated the Dionysian as the mere subjective, or in cruder systems, as a metaphysical evil with an active existence of its own. Dionysian art becomes intelligible, immediately apprehended in the wonderful significance of musical dissonance, and also with tragical myth - both transfigure a region in whose joyous harmony all dissonance, like the terrible picture of the world, dies charmingly away. members.rediff.com /orpheus/26mol.html   (6042 words)

Nietzsche This person is the living representation of the struggle between the Apollonian and the Dionysian. Hence, it is revealed to the Apollonian Greek that the Dionysian state is connected with the Apollonian state. Instead of being individuals, as in the Apollonian state, people lose themselves in the emotion of the moment and all the barriers that normally separate people have been broken down. www.geocities.com /sentry_.geo/nietzsche.htm   (6042 words)

ARTICLE: Apollo and Dionysus: We must attend to the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses well before there was tragedy, back when any spiritual justification for human existence, tragic or otherwise, was less of an issue than was sheer survival itself. Although the Apollonian has its own kind of music, measured and suggestive, Dionysian music is that truly powerful music which, prior to any image, grips us from below with its "rhythmics, dynamics and harmony",22 moving our whole body to dance in an inarticulate symbolizing of the currents of primordial being. Whereas the Apollonian epic poet and the Dionysian reveler each had their respective gods, the lyric poet feels the influence of both of them. theorderoftime.com /science/sciences/articles/Apollo_and_Dionysus.html   (6042 words)

BKTWO-07.htm The Dionysian compares roughly with what poor old mixed-up Schopenhauer called "The Will".....by which I believe he clearly meant to say; not the individual human will, which is distinctly and unarguably Apollonian, but rather the atavistic, or sub-conscious, animal-instinctive drive to submersion in a greater, safer, more secure whole. The term "Dionysian" can be used by itself, and in some of its other forms such as "Dionysiac" it not infrequently is. Most commonly though, "Dionysian" or Dionysiac" is used as a comparative to, or in opposition to, the term "Apollonian". All forms of wild enthusiasm and ecstacy are Dionysian and that definitely includes the performance of the Shamanic function, for in such emotional states, a person totally gives up their individuality, and at least temporarily submerges themselves and their individuality in some other whole. www.parascience.org /BKTWO-07.htm   (3000 words)

Friedrich Nietzsche Surveying the history of Western culture since the time of the Greeks, Nietzsche lamented over how this "Dionysian," creative energy had been submerged and weakened as it became overshadowed by the "Apollonian" forces of logical order and stiff sobriety. As a means towards cultural rebirth, Nietzsche advocated the resurrection and fuller release of Dionysian artistic energies -- those which he associated with primordial creativity, joy in existence and ultimate truth. Nietzsche, having by this time absorbed the German romanticist, and specifically Schopenhauerian, view that non-rational forces reside at the foundation of all creativity and of reality itself, identified a strongly instinctual, wild, amoral, "Dionysian" energy within pre-Socratic Greek culture as an essentially creative and healthy force. plato.stanford.edu /entries/nietzsche   (3000 words)

Anthropology 341 - They also tend to produce different personality disorders - Apollonian patterns producing disorders of excessive constraint, like hysteria; Dionysian resulting in issues of alienation and narcissistic personality disorders - These patterns tend to conceive the individual in different ways - the Apollonian as a secure cog in a social machine, the Dionysian as a liberated but insecure free spirit - Apollonian, like the Greek god Apollo, celebrates moderation and the fulfilling of the cyclical order of life www.sla.purdue.edu /courses/anth341/cpl09.htm   (3000 words)

Nietzsche, Dionysus and Apollo Apollonian and Dionysian are terms used by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy to designate the two central principles in Greek culture. He used the names Apollonian and Dionysian for the two forces because Apollo, as the sun-god, represents light, clarity, and form, whereas Dionysus, as the wine-god, represents drunkenness and ecstasy. Everything that is part of the unique individuality of man or thing is Apollonian in character; all types of form or structure are Apollonian, since form serves to define or individualize that which is formed; thus, sculpture is the most Apollonian of the arts, since it relies entirely on form for its effect. www.historyguide.org /europe/dio_apollo.html   (3000 words)

Apollo vs Dionysus: The Only Theme Your Students Will Ever Need in Writing about Literature The principle might be stressed: Apollonian or Dionysian behavior is positive to the extent it is cognizant of the imperatives of the other and directs its energy to generous rather than self- indulgent ends. The "ornithologist" is Apollonian in his intention to capture the rare heron so that he might add it to his collection of specimens; in Wordsworth s phrase, he would "murder to dissect." To entice Sylvia to help him, he tempts her, Satan-like, with his good looks, courtly manner, and money. His Apollonian pride is even more deserving of reprobation since to his "inordinate ambition" is added "his fatalism and his refusal to accept the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith" (Boorstin 604). www.vccaedu.org /inquiry/vcca-journal/thro.html   (3000 words)

Opinion: The Dionysian Dialectic - The Accent of Choice - Amending the School Prayer Amendment - Chinese Greeting Cards and the East Asian Future Within the context of myth it was a tension that united temporal with spiritual, secular with transcendent, and Dionysian with Apollonian. This was an ambiguous, contrary, and tension-filled revelation, for what was revealed was both animal and spiritual, Dionysian and Apollonian. As such, we must recognize the Dionysian in every private and social equation if we are truly to understand and serve the order we call "justice"-and that is, in fact, the only ground and embodiment of our rights. www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9505/opinion/opinion.html   (6107 words)

Anthropology 341 - a similar contrast can be drawn between the celebration of individuality and creativity by the Dionysian Hippie movement and the celebration of group orientation and order by the ROTC in the 1960s - These patterns tend to conceive the individual in different ways - the Apollonian as a secure cog in a social machine, the Dionysian as a liberated but insecure free spirit - one can contrast the orderly, tradition-oriented, Apollonian style of Episcopalian church services with the ecstatic, improvisational, Dionysian style of many Pentecostal groups www.cla.purdue.edu /courses/anth341/cpl09.htm   (232 words)

The Birth of Tragedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nietzsche presents the claim that the tragedy of Ancient Greece was the highest form of art yet created due to their mixture of both Apollonian and Dionysian elements into one seamless whole, allowing the spectator to experience the full spectrum of the human condition. Apollonian : arts of space, dreams, principium individuationis (principle of individuation), rules and boundaries, theoretical or elite individual, illusion, optimism, cheerfulness, reason and science, Maya (appearance) celebrated, human being as artist, moderation, rigidity and stasis, exhausting of possibilities. Socrates, while as a man was still seen as a beautiful incarnation of the Apollonian spirit, overvalued reason to a point that diffused the value of myth and suffering to human knowledge. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Die_Geburt_der_Tragödie   (232 words)

Mimesis and the Aesthetic Experience The impact of the confrontation, the immediacy and strength of the illusion, is Dionysian. The Dionysian aspect of the aesthetic experience allows psychic energy that is normally barred from escape to flow out and include the object of perception. In the transitional period between totemic mythologies and the Socratic world view, the mimetic experiences of the bard and chorus were instrumental to both the actualization of ethical consciousness and its reunion with the 'superhuman cosmology' of classical mythology. www.westland.net /venice/art/cronk/mimesis.htm   (1138 words)

The Birth of Tragedy However, the beauty of the Apollonian world is merely a reaction to the terror the Greeks saw in a Dionysian reality. The characters in the drama are the Apollonian reflections of the tragic chorus. In the Apollonian world, "we hear nothing but the accents of an exuberant, triumphant life in which all things, whether good or evil, are deified," writes Nietzsche. home.comcast.net /~jilflirt/nietzsche.html   (1138 words)

Sabestudios.com: Apollonian and Dionysian Dynamic As the goals and reasons for the Apollonian decline we find rising the exuberant and intoxicating Dionysian spirit of dream, instinctive wisdom and ecstatic play. We are separated from our elder-selves, the keepers of the Apollonian and their esotericism. Finding itself freed by the hot poker of Impressionism, painting has not been corralled back into the tomb of the Apollonian cave, and it is not my fight to force that to happen. sabestudios.com /dionysian.html   (1138 words)

Dionysian --  Encyclopædia Britannica The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche used the terms Dionysian and Apollonian to analyze and explain the character of Greek tragedy in his book The Birth of Tragedy. These are opposed to the Dionysian characteristics of excess, irrationality, lack of... Present-day ideas of music as a symbolism owe much to two German philosophers, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), who brought to the theory of music a new concept, articulated by each in different ways and in divergent terms but faithful to the same principle—dynamism. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9124825?tocId=9124825   (559 words)

BOOK VII .RESTORING "FAMILY VALUES" (SECOND SUB-PART, A "NEW" VALUE SYSTEM) Given the Apollonian mission of transmitting knowledge, and the Dionysian mission of passion and enjoyment, all that remains is to define a balanced fusion of the two in order to have the greatness first envisioned by Nietzsche. Drawing from his own studies of philosophy and from Darwin's Theory of Evolution, Nietzsche argued that the mission of mankind was to produce a race of supermen; beings who would be as equivalently advanced over mankind as mankind was advanced over the apes. Christianity is virtually silent on this subject, as the only real commandment in the New Testament is to live a virtuous life in preparation for the Second Coming of Christ. www.agnostic.org /BIBLEH-10.htm   (559 words)

Apollonian Individuals within an Apollonian culture do not attempt to meddle with frenzied and disruptive psychological states as do members of Dionysian cultures. Apollonian culture is typified by members manifesting behaviors that keep them in the middle of the road, that exemplify moderation, sobriety, and restraint. www.webref.org /sociology/a/apollonian.htm   (559 words)

The Artful Writer: Nietzsche On Screenwriting In N’s terms the elephant is the Dionysian Comos, the blind men the dramatists exploring it, the Apollonian craft, the individual ability of each dramatist to best describe that portion they touch. There's the Dionysian, which is the chaotic, experiential, existential, ephemeral and dream-like quality of existence every artist seeks to capture. He believed that playwrights (and by extension, I'd argue, screenwriters) were called to their vocation by their desire and ability to tap into the common human chaos that runs through us all. artfulwriter.com /archives/2005/05/nietzsche_on_sc.html   (7182 words)

Tragedy: Apollonian and Dionysian and other terms his Apollonian consciousness was but a thin veil hiding from him the whole Dionysian realm. Our modern tragic vision is the Dionysian vision still, except that the visionary is now utterly lost, since there is no cosmic order to allow a return to the world for him who has dared stray beyond. theliterarylink.com /apollo.html   (780 words)

Neoplatonism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] As the last true representative of the Greek philosophical spirit, Plotinus is Apollonian, not Dionysian. This is a striving or desire rendered all the more poignant and worthy of philosophy precisely because it is born in the depths of existential angst, and not in the primitive ecstasies of unreflective ritual. Plotinus was faced with the task of defending the true Platonic philosophy, as he understood it, against the inroads being made, in his time, most of all by Gnostics, but also by orthodox Christianity. www.utm.edu /research/iep/n/neoplato.htm   (780 words)

Nancy A. Taylor, Apollonian vs. Dionysian Lecture German philosopher who defined the terms Apollonian and Dionysian: Nietzche considered the ideal person as one who maintained a balance between the opposites, drawing the strong points from each, and he believed both qualities were necessary. The infinite person is free of rigid prejudices and never works consciously to restrict others from exercising their right to assemble, speak their minds openly, practice their own religion, and follow their own preferences — so long as, in being free, they do not themselves limit the freedom of another.” www.csun.edu /~hceng017/ad.html   (359 words)

Alan Moore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Women had power over men once, Gull believes, and the irrational, Dionysian unconscious mind once dominated the rational, Apollonian conscious mind. The symbolism of London's landmarks is explored in a tour de force chapter, in which Gull explains his motives to his uncomprehending coachman. Gull is reason's lunatic, carrying out an act of magic to enforce the rational, masculine hegemony. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Moore   (359 words)

Friedrich Nietzsche - Free Online Library According to Nietzsche, the Greeks went against this tendency and erected the sober, rational, and active Apollonian principle. In it, he diagnosed human beings as subject to unconscious, involuntary, overwhelmingly self-destructive Dionysian instincts. nietzsche.thefreelibrary.com   (359 words)

Phenomenology Online: Scholars; In this book he introduced his famous distinction between the Apollonian, or rational, element in human nature and the Dionysian, or passionate, element, as exemplified in the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus. When the two principles are blended, either in art or in life, humanity achieves a momentary harmony with the Primordial Mystery. www.phenomenologyonline.com /scholars/scholars.html   (359 words)

Apollonian Vs. Dionysian Personality Traits For this Whole-Class HyperNews forum, please analyze your own personality traits as they relate to the ideas presented in the Apollonian Vs. Dionysian chapter. Please discuss ALL of the following personality traits: hyper.vcsun.org /HyperNews/pswenson/get/apollo1.html   (359 words)

The Birth of Tragedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nietzsche presents the claim that the tragedy of Ancient Greece was the highest form of art yet created due to its mixture of both Apollonian and Dionysian elements into one seamless whole, allowing the spectator to experience the full spectrum of the human condition. Before the tragedy, there was an era of static, idealized plastic art in the form of sculpture that represented the Apollonian view of the world. Dionysian reality is justified in Apollinian beauty while Apollinian beauty is based on Dionysian reality. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dionysian   (1414 words)

Amazon.co.uk: The Birth of Tragedy (Oxford World's Classics): Books For Nietzsche, Greek tragedy is the expression of a culture which has achieved a delicate but powerful balance between Dionysian insight into the chaos and suffering which underlies all existence and the discipline and clarity of rational Apollonian form. For Nietzsche, Greek tragedy is the expression of a culture which has achieved a powerful balance between insight into the chaos and suffering which underlies all existence and the discipline and clarity of rational Apollonian form. That said, The Birth of Tragedy stands well as a work of its own accord; Nietzsche's war on Socratic optimism is began in this work, and the brilliant and influential Appollinian and Dionysian dialectic makes it first appearance here. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192832921   (840 words)

Friedrich Nietzsche Surveying the history of Western culture since the time of the Greeks, Nietzsche lamented over how this "Dionysian," creative energy had been submerged and weakened as it became overshadowed by the "Apollonian" forces of logical order and stiff sobriety. As a means towards cultural rebirth, Nietzsche advocated the resurrection and fuller release of Dionysian artistic energies -- those which he associated with primordial creativity, joy in existence and ultimate truth. He concluded that European culture since the time of Socrates had remained one-sidedly Apollonian and relatively unhealthy. plato.stanford.edu /entries/nietzsche   (4711 words)

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