(NEW) Young Ki Kim (South Korea)

According to Nietzsche, art is the product of the inner will and impulses of man and the repetition of the struggle and reconciliation between opposing impulses. Nietzsche explains this by dividing it into Apollonic and Dionysian arts. Unlike Apollonic art, which boils down to light, completeness, and dreams, Dionysian art brings about in imperfectness, impulse, and madness. These two different attributes merge into one through the entertainment of the intoxication, a feature of the art of ancient Greek tragedy. Dionysian art now exercises creative activities that form their own worlds, not just aesthetic experiences. The Dionysian artist exhorts us to have the art of staying in the virtual world and keeping a distance from it at the same time, being in reality and distancing ourselves from reality, and through the practice of that technique, we are able to encounter and transform our own painful realities. For Nietzsche, Dionysian music is expressed with a will, stimulating the human body and mind, making him dance instead of walking and singing instead of talking. I reinterpreted it as a musical genre called hip-hop. The genre of music called hip-hop is similar to Nietzsche's philosophy of art, especially to Nietzsche's thinking of music. Nietzsche has seen humans sing and dance to express themselves as members of a higher community and says that this perfection of the world has nothing to do with individual intellectual levels or artistic culture. In fact, one of the biggest characteristics of hip-hop is that everyone is available and there are no conditions needed for participation. Hip-hop is open to everyone and there are no conditions for participation, such as property or cultural level. The participants just get together and express themselves in their own way. In the process of doing hip-hop, participants have a sympathetic attitude toward the pain of each other through mutual understanding across borders, races or rich people. This tells us that hip-hop is not just a musical genre, but a philosophical lifestyle.

A Preliminary Study on the Possibility of Integration between Antique Tragedy and Philosophical Counseling (Presentation)

Today, modern society is faced with a variety of problems, and philosophy has presented various alternatives to solve real problems. In particular, philosophy counseling, which was newly introduced by Achenbach in Germany in 1981, is a representative example of solving life problems and suggesting alternatives through philosophy, away from the existing theoretical-centered philosophy. However, due to the philosophy's focus on suggesting alternatives, in-depth consideration of the problem itself has been relatively neglected at some point. Before presenting an alternative, in-depth consideration of the problem will be made to present a more appropriate solution to the problem. This is because the answer to philosophy, which is presented without a proper understanding of what the problem is, will have no meaning. So what is the most important life problem we face today? The debater considers it pessimism and nihilism. In particular, the suffering of various lives that have approached our daily lives since the emergence of COVID-19 is leading our lives to pessimism and nihilism. So how should we understand these various life pains that come to us? This argument is intended to be carried out through the Attic tragedy in Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy." The pessimism and nihilism that Nietzsche tried to say through the "birth of tragedy" Attic tragedy will reveal what pessimism and nihilism are. Furthermore, through Lou Marinoff's "PLATO NOT PROZAC", Peter Raabe's "The Theory and Practice of Philosophical Counseling", and Kim Sun-Hye's perspective treatment, we will look at how today's philosophical counseling perceives life's pain and problems. Through these discussions, the discussion will examine the possibility of deep consideration of the problem itself and later incorporation of philosophical counseling and Nietzsche's Attic tragedy.