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This is the video from our November Philosophy Pop-Up on YouTube Live. I started out with the topic of Friedrich Nietzsche's distinction between three "noble responses" to the problem of life in his great early work, The Birth of Tragedy. Then I addressed and answered comments and questions - about Nietzsche, or or about philosophy more generally.

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The three noble responses are the Dionysiac, the Apollonian, and the Socratic. Nietzsche identifies all three of these with classic Greek civilization, and discusses a number of artistic genres, ranging from Homer's epic poetry and Archilochus' lyric poetry, to folk music, to the choral festivals, to early Greek tragedy (Aeschylus and Sophocles) and comedy (Aristophanes), to later Greek tragedy (Euripides), and Platonic dialogues.

He also suggests that after a long period dominated by the Socratic - or as he also calls it, the Alexandrian and "scientific" approaches - German music (Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner) and philosophy (Kant and Schopenhauer) has opened the path to a new synthesis of the Apollonian and Dionysiac.