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