Nietzsche: apolo e o estado para promoção da cultura

Abstract

The Nietzsche’s writings of the period of The birth of tragedy informs about the young philosopher’s concerns with the requisite political conditions for a true culture. The pair Apollo and Dionysus, in opposi- tion and harmonized in Greek religiosity, as powers of the nature, results aesthetically in the tragic art, and politically results in a warlike State. Ni- etzsche assigns to Greeks the capacity of create a culture: art, State, religion jointed by the artistic will of nature, which impels the life of a nation.