Saturday, April 09, 2005

Culture

Nietzsche describes a "genuine culture", in "Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks", as a "unity of style". This unity of style enables the activity and force of philosophy to take effect, for philosophy to free itself from "exile among barbarians", to begin the do-ing of philosophy; that is, only in a culture can philosophy work its magic, a magic that is inherently doing, to reality, and no longer confined to the play of the mind or idea with itself. But what is a "unity of style"?

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