What It Means To Be Human Nietzsche

Individuals have long debated what it means to be human and what defines the human existence. Being both academics whom attempt to understand and explain either the meaning and purpose of life or the ways in which the brain operates, Nietzsche and Freud allow us to safely accept that given the opportunity, both Nietzsche and Freud would open up to greater understanding and be willing to pursue these opportunities no matter the effort required. That is important because through their intention of discovering truth, they show what it means to be human. Through Nietzsche we understand the creation of art due to Apollonian influence and the easing of suffering of the Dionysian reality; however it is the Dionysian state that is to be achieved in

The term “principium individuationis” as described by Schopenhauer, symbolizes man’s separation from the chaotic world he lives in under Apollo’s influence. Nietzsche uses the comparison of drunkenness and dreaming to explain the difference between Apollo and Dionysius. The world of dreams is associated with Apollo as it is a space that is filled with light where man can enjoy the immediate apprehension of form and receive divine intuition and healing. However it is the dream’s symbols and metaphor that Nietzsche refers to as appearance. He compares the dreamer to the philosopher in the sense that the dreamer knows that what he is seeing isn’t real but that the interpretation of the appearance can lead to truth.
Oppositely, Dionysius represents the breakdown of the principium individuationis; when it becomes impossible to distinguish between the world of appearance and reality. That is why Nietzsche uses the example of drunkenness, to convey the idea of forgetting the self. The influence of Dionysius results in the breakdown of barriers between individuals as well as the barriers between man and nature. This is the state in which man enters the primordial unity and becomes part of a higher

For Nietzsche, he says the apollonian is the appearance, which we see around us, it is an interpretation of reality in which the true suffering which permeates all of life is hidden. Hence why he gravitates towards the activities of the Dionysian, including music and induced states of ecstasy, which has an effect of tearing down the barrier between life and appearance. We feel a sense of oneness when we dance to music or do things that thrill us. The Dionysian is what is linked to emotional response and thrill and feeling while the apollonian is of reason and thoughtful protection from the harsh and unbearable truth, which is, the original purpose of the apollonian, to make our life full of suffering easier by means of art and fake beauty; finding beauty/meaning/glory in appearance because there is none in the Dionysian reality. Nietzsche compares dreaming to being drunk and says that the dreamer always knows he is dreaming and is aware that what he is experiencing isn’t true reality; but the drunkard is in a state of ecstatic bliss in which there is no separation or distinction between what he is doing and the feelings he feels, they are one just as the original primordial unity. That is why he says to say yes to life in every way possible; to achieve the Dionysian