Sub specie saeculi, sub specie aeterni: tempo e eternidade no jovem Nietzsche

For the Young Nietzsche, modernity sets the beginning of the decline of western culture, by virtue of the glorification of knowledge. This aspect causes the seclusion of modern man in a realistic perspective, unable to free himself from the constraint inflicted by the becoming. To revert this condemnation imposed on culture by Socratism, it is necessary to restitute Art’s rights, since only art enables the recovery of the bond with eternity, giving men the means to protect himself from the effects of time. This happens especially in the music realm, either in its Apollonian aspect (rhythm) or in its Dyonisian (harmonic) one, in that the supremacy of appearances before art is weakened. Key WordsTime; Eternity; Language; Art; Myth.