Eternal Recurrence, Affirmation, Evaluation

In the context of a theory of Temporality, that the affirmation of Eternal Recurrence adds one more event to the posited cycle is a perhaps fascinating complication.  But, for Nietzsche, who has other, more immediate ambitions, it presents a basis for a concept of the relation between Fact and Value that is an alternative to that of two traditional systems.  In one, Fact and Value are identical, i. e. Evaluation is a descriptive act, a status that is a significant ingredient in Supernatural Ethics, in which Value is ontologized, e. g. explicitly in Zoroastrianism and Manicheanism, and implicitly in Platonism and the Theology that it influences.  In the other, Fact and Value are radically heterogeneous, i. e. Evaluation is relegated to an at best subordinate function in a putative descriptive enterprise, e. g. Utilitarianism.  In contrast, for Nietzsche, Fact and Value represent a distinction, but one of degree, not of kind--that of a power relation between an evaluator and some phenomenon.  From that perspective, implicated in both traditional alternatives is a devaluation of Evaluation that exemplifies the self-denial that is a symptom of Ressentiment.  Similarly vulnerable to that diagnosis is the effort to de-emphasize the axiological significance of Eternal Recurrence.