/lit/ - Literature

>>19104752
By life affirmation, he meant embracing and celebrating all aspects of life, including pain and the most terrible aspects of it. The "orgiastic" element of the Dionysian mysteries and tragedies that Nietzsche saw. And yes, it's possible, and it seems he saw the Greeks as having achieved that; pic related.

>>16446022
He considered sexuality as being fundamental to Greek spirituality.

>>15718699
If you don't read Will to Power on this completely outdated premise then you fell for anti-Nazi propaganda.

>>13833050
I don't think you understand what "orgiastic" really means in this context, or what it meant to the Greeks.

>>13833101
>>13833123
Not an argument. I'm also probably older than you.

>>12878801
If you're laughing at the cosmic joke that is this life like the dancing Zarathustra, then I'm with you. Otherwise, you laugh in vain.

Why do people regard Nietzsche as a nihilist or a pessimist when passages like this exist? Or when the psychology that he's openly admitting to here is prevalent throughout his works from the very beginning to the very end of them? Do they even read him or what?