Monday, May 20, 2013

Eternal Recurrence, Dualism, Holism

The most chronic and prevalent fracture in human existence has been, in its many manifestations, the Supernatural-Natural dualism.  That dualism has been both synchronic, e. g. the thesis that a human is both incorporeal and corporeal, and diachronic, e. g. the thesis of the possibility of an incorporeal existence that survives corporeal death.  In contrast, according to Nietzsche's doctrine of Eternal Recurrence, "escape" from corporeality "is impossible", as he puts it in #1058 of the Will to Power collection, i. e. the doctrine eliminates the diachronic dualism.  But, if there is no incorporeal survival of corporeal death, then the ground of the synchronic dualism is eliminated, as well.  Thus, the affirmation of Eternal Recurrence does not merely approve synchronic Holism, as has been previously proposed here, it produces it.

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