悲剧的诞生The Birth Of Tragedy 第89期:苏格拉底与艺术对立

Since we have discovered an anti-Dionysian tendency antedating Socrates, its most brilliant exponent, we must now ask, "Toward what does a figure like Socrates point?"

所以，如果我们假定反酒神的倾向甚至在苏格拉底以前已经发生作用，不过在他身上取得特别明显的表现而已；那末，关于像苏格拉底那样的现象，毕竟表示甚么呢，

Faced with the evidence of the Platonic dialogues, we are certainly not entitled to see in Socrates merely an agent of disintegration.

我们就不应畏避而不谈这问题。以柏拉图的对话录而论，我们固然不能把这现象看作仅仅是瓦解性的否定势力。

While it is clear that the immediate result of the Socratic strategy was the destruction of Dionysian drama, we are forced, nevertheless, by the profundity of the Socratic experience to ask ourselves whether, in fact, art and Socratism are diametrically opposed to one another, whether there is really anything inherently impossible in the idea of a Socratic artist?

虽然无疑苏格拉底的倾向的直接影响促使酒神悲剧瓦解，但是苏格拉底的深刻的生活经验令我们不得不追问：是否苏格拉底主义与艺术之间必然只有对立的关系呢，是否“艺术家苏格拉底”的诞生这句话就根本是自相矛盾的呢？