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From: "Ninghijzhinda" <ninghijzhinda-AT-poczta.wp.pl>
Subject: Re: something "new" to talk about
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:58:01 +0100


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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



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