File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1995/nietzsche_Apr.95, message 63


Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 11:00:57 +1000
From: cathy-AT-coombs.anu.edu.au (Cathy Legg)
Subject: RE: Eternal Recurrence


>Cathy,
>
>Perhaps the difference between an eternal return of the same and an eternal
>return of difference can be thought along these two formulations:  (1) Only
>the same returns; and (2) only returning is the same.  The first points to
>an eternal return as the return of the same events -- in this case, the being
>of becoming means an infinite recurrence of identical mixtures of forces. In
>the second formulation, however, it's not sameness that returns but returning
>that is the same -- returning is being insofar as being is becoming.
>
>In this sense, the clause 'of the ...' is misplaced.  All that returns is
>returning -- that is, a repetition which always interiorizes difference. 
>Being is thus neither static nor cyclical...

Nathan thanks for your reply. I'm not sure that I understand "a repetition
which always interiorises difference", though. How would this differ from,
for example, a world that continually evolved into new forms (such as
our ecosphere)? Such a world, it seems to me, would be neither static nor
cyclical, and yet I can't see how one could call it any sort of "repetition".

Best wishes,




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How can one learn the truth by thinking? As one learns to see a
face better if one draws it. - Wittgenstein.
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Cathy Legg,
Philosophy Program,
R.S.S.S., 
Australian National University.



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