Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:55:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Barnaby Gibson <dbg4284-AT-is2.NYU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Nietzsche & psychology


On Wed, 12 Apr 1995 WIDDER-AT-vax.lse.ac.uk wrote:

> Thanks to Dan for coming upon the idea that the eternal return is not the
> repetition of the same but the repetitions of difference (He wrote:  "One
> possibility which occurs is that N. is talking about the eternal return of
> Change as the only eternal truth - this would be consistent with
> elements of his philosophy which emphasize cycles of growth and degeneration
> which never result in any Hegelian conclusion").

> [Edited Nathan's good discussion & explanation of the above]

  I agree that E.R. is not SOLELY mythological - it also makes a truth 
claim about the nature of reality.  But I think the primary attack on 
the Idea takes place in other places in N.'s text.  The E.R. can (and 
does?) serve both roles (i.e., critical attack & hortatory myth), but I 
think it works better as a hortatory image than it does as a critical 
attack.  Places like Twilight of the Idols and others do a much better 
job on the critical front.  Agree?  Disagree?

Dan




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