From: "Ninghijzhinda" <ninghijzhinda-AT-poczta.wp.pl> Subject: Re: something "new" to talk about Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:58:01 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Welcome! Leigh Johnson wrote: "I'm really interested to hear what some of you think about the eternal return. Here's my question: literal or metaphorical?" In my opinion, the idea of the eternal return is metaphorical. I'll try to explain my statement. Nietzsche was rather sceptical, he laughed at the "methaphysicians" for e.g. in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", in the chapter about "Beyonders" (I'm not sure, if I translated it well), he disagreed with all the people who pretend to have an ideal/true viev on the reality. He definetely said that there is no possibility of knowing the truth for us, so it's in my opinion impossible to think that he wrote against himself. I think, that Nietzsche ( as he was an egsistencialist par excellence), after reconizing nonsencefulness of the world, and after he'd written in "Gaya Scienza" that the "beast in us wants the false", understood ( as for e.g. Sartre did) that our freedom is the freedom of creating ourselves ( Sartre: " Existence is before essence"), so only way to fight our hopelessness is to create our lives with thought that they will return. This idea is very deep - create your life in the way that makes your thought about living it again happy. NOT TERRIBLE. In my opinion - this is the point of the idea of eternal returns. Rafal Urbaniak name="Ninghijzhinda.vcf" filename="Ninghijzhinda.vcf" BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:;Ninghijzhinda FN:Ninghijzhinda EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:ninghijzhinda2-AT-poczta.onet.pl REV:20000308T175800Z END:VCARD --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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