Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence as a transformative cosmological teaching
Muhammad Omar Khan
Abstract:<p>According to Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence, everything that happens now must have already happened an infinite number of times and will happen an infinite number of times again. How one reacts to such an idea is a measure of how life-affirming or life-denying one’s attitude is vis-à-vis a world bereft of transcendent value or meaning. The debates about how to interpret this idea have centered around two broad options: some interpret eternal recurrence as a psychological test, others think Nie… Show more
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