The place of Politics in the young Nietzsche's thought

Abstract

Imbued of the schopenhauerian notion of will, Nietzsche analyzes the Greek culture keeping in sight the Greeks' capacity to create the tragedy as a way to transfigure the pain of existence. In his writings on aesthetics, Nietzsche examines not only the Greek art: the State had occupied him since The birth of tragedy. When he thinks of the Greek state, one of his aims is to raise his first criticisms to the modern state. Nietzsche states that rationality, applied to the understanding of State, does not show clearly the ingeniousness of this instrument of nature, whose aim is to produce form and beauty among men. The bourgeois modern state, pursuing the goals of ceasing the war of everybody against everybody, protecting every individual's life and the process of accumulation of wealth, obstructs the generation of great individuals and becomes, therefore, an obstacle to the elaboration of culture