eternal recurrence

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vicious cycle

bike

deja vu

one-liner

spiral

centaur

is (goethe does not call it this) such that as long as you are not aware of the continual law of die and be again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark earth.

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is (yogi berra didn't use this term) if I had to do it all over again, I would do it all over again.

If I had to do it all over again, I would do it all over again. Yogi Berra

is a commandment to act as though you had to relive your life innumerable times because in one way or another, you must recommence and relive it.

act as though you had to relive your life innumerable times and will to relive it innumerable times for in one way or another, you must recommence and relive it. (Nietzsche in Klossowski 56-7)

is a cyclical notion of time repeating itself not as identical, but, far more interesting, as similar.

For Borges, time is the central problem of metaphysics, and so it is only natural that time becomes one of the main themes of his work. Of all the temporal schemes, the one Borges prefers and the most frequent in his work is cyclical or circular time. In various essays, Borges has studied the vicissitudes of this doctrine, from its Pythagorean genesis to Nietzsche's renovated formulation. Of all the versions of the eternal return, Borges seems to enjoy most the one that considers the cycles which repeat themselves infinitely not as identical, but as similar.

is a necessity that must be willed: Only he who I am now can will the necessity of my return.

The Eternal Return is a necessity that must be willed: only he who I am now can will the necessity of my return and all the events that have led to what I am insofar as the will here presupposes a subject. (Nietzsche in Klossowski 57)

is a stand against transitoriness. Instead there is an eternity for everything. We are free to pour the most precious salves and wines into the sea because everything that has been is eternal: The sea will cast it up again.

A certain emperor always bore in mind the transitoriness of all things so as not to take them too seriously and to live at peace among them. To me, on the contrary, everything seems far too valuable to be so fleeting: I seek an eternity for everything: ought one to pour the most precious salves and wines into the sea'My consolation is that everything that has been is eternal: the sea will cast it up again. (Nietzsche 'will to power' 547-8)

is an ethics in as much as it is a selective ontology. It is selective because not every will returns:. Negation comes only once, only affirmation returns. The eternal return is the affirmative will as being.

The eternal return of the will is an ethics in as much as it is a 'selective ontology'. It is selective because not every will returns:. Negation comes only once, only affirmation returns. the eternal return is the affirmative will as being. Being is not given in Nietzsche, being must be willed' (Hardt Apprentice 49). . . Ariadne's affirmation is a double affirmation ('the 'yes' that responds to 'yes'. . . ), or, more properly, it is a spiraling, infinite affirmation affirmation raised to the nth power. Ariadne's creation of pure being is an ethical act, an act of love' (Hardt Apprentice 50)

is an ethics insofar as it is the 'yes' that responds to 'yes'.

eternal recurrence, n.Definitions

eternal recurrence