Abstract
This paper aims at analyzing elements of tragic thought (Nietzsche, Rosset) present in "Terpsícore", a short story by Machado de Assis, and at discussing its implications for the field of education. Although the story is about the daily life of a lower social stratum nineteenth century couple, it conducts a translation of the mythical muse of dance and rescues a pedagogical orientation for a unconditional approval of life, expressed by the affirmation of fortuity, the spectacle, aesthetics, the feast and amor fati.
tragic philosophy; pedagogy of choice; amor fati