The Nietzschean moral in "The birth of tragedy"

Abstract

The present article intends to recover the Nietzschean idea of a tragic moral in his youthful work "The Birth of Tragedy". Nietzsche proposes to us the confrontation between two antithetic and irreconcilable spheres that are mutually dependent: Apolo and Dionisio, whose individual subsistence is in an eternal be-coming of negation and acceptance between both, allowing us to question ourselves and cre-ate our own original moral. Therefore, starting from the rational to the irrational and vice ver-sa this becomes possible and real, because it allows us to forge the limits of a new morality. In short, to make existing morality a tragic moral implies accepting our instincts, pleasures and Dionysian passions to unite them timelessly with moderation, contemplation and Apollo-nian illusion: thus forming from these antagonistic the tragic evolution of the original one.