KONSEP ESTETIKAFRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (Aesthetic Concept According to Friedrich)

ABSTRACT This study is entitled "Aesthetic Concept According to Friedrich Nietzsche". It aims at knowing: 1) The shape of Friedrich Nietzsche's think¬ing on aesthetics, 2) The relevance of the aesthetic concept of Nietzsche to previous philosophical thoughts, 3) The relation between Nietzsche's philo¬sophical thinking aesthetic concept. The study is based on Nietzsche's work, The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music. The study proceeds according to the following steps: 1) Col¬lecting and describing data according to the objectively investigated scope, 2) Sorting out the primary data from the secondary ones, 3) Analyzing Nietzsche's aesthetics concept reflectively and interpretatively, 4) Arranging the investigation outcomes into a draft, 5) Reflecting the investigation out¬comes in the draft from to become a final report. From the investigation outcomes it can be concluded that: 1) The aes¬thetic concept that had been developed by Nietzsche was an effort to redis¬cover the heritages of pre-Socratic Sophists, 2) According to Nietzsche, West¬ern communities had experienced a serious cultural decadence resulted from all rational identifications since Socrates and Plato, 3) There was a need of big power to stimulate a Modern societal cultures in order to make it move lively and dynamically through revitalizing the pre-Socrates Greek element of tragedy, 4) Tragedy art, in Nietzsche's perspective need to bring out into view as a had been collapsed modernity base to stand on. In his opinion, tragedy appears as two strong drives in the Greek cultur