How to Turn Suffering Into Art

Though many philosophers throughout history have talked about beauty and suffering, very few have done this to the same extent as Friedrich Nietzsche. In his book The Birth of Tragedy he explores how the sufferings and pains of life can be rendered beautiful through art, and this ties in interestingly with his wider philosophy. So let's see what this great thinker can teach us about the life of art and the art of life.

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00:00 A Tragic Life
01:30 Apollo, Dionysus, and Unbearable Truths
07:30 Beware Greeks Bearing Scripts
13:40 Humanity as Art and Artist
19:59 An Excess of Apollo