According to Gregory Moore's reading of Nietzsche, Apollo and Dyonisus represent simbolically two 'cosmic forces' which anticipates the vision of a 'broader' Will to Power operating in nature.43 In this respect, both the early and the late Nietzsche are consistent in seeing a Bildungstrieb operating in the cosmos shaping life toward higher forms of individuation, and in characterizing this 'drive' as artistic in nature.44 Therefore in both cases we find the same idea, that the force which leads us into forging our metaphysical framework is also something which grows out of the very essence of life. Thus, at no stage of the development of Nietzsche's thought we find a discontinuity between life and metaphysics. What changes is the fact that he considers his earlier description of this cosmic process as not 'sharp' enough.
