The Aesthetic Understanding of Life: The Aesthetic Understanding of Life in Nietzsche's work represents another dimension of his literary use of metaphor. There is nothing outside of this world according to Nietzsche. Consequently meaning must be found within life itself. Therein lies one of his chief critiques of Christianity in that it produces an "anti life" mentality.
Nietzsche argues that nothing outside of this life can give this life meaning. In the Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche he advocated the idea that the greatness of the Greeks lay in their early tragedy thru which they addressed transitoriness of life. Life becomes a wonderful tragedy in the thought of the Greeks. The whole world is a great game or a great play or a great drama.
"Justification" is the term used by Nietzsche in which he drains the term of its Christian baggage referring to one's status in the future life and the transformation brought about through an experience with the transcendent. Nietzsche proposed that justification is to be found within this huge puzzling drama and he argued that in the tragedy of this life one's strives to seek this justification.
