Sunday, May 5, 2013

Eternal Recurrence, Ressentiment, Empowerment

While medicine has an objective internal constitution, its effects can only be fully appreciated first-hand, under certain conditions.  Likewise, while Eternal Recurrence has an objective conceptual structure, it can only be fully understood from the first-hand affirmation of it.  For, it is devised by Nietzsche as an antidote to Ressentiment, which he diagnoses as the ground of the pervasive and chronic Supernaturalism, that is typically expressed as nihilistic denigration, if not as outright hatred, of corporeality.  Furthermore, since Will to Power is the fundamental Naturalistic principle, it is the specific locus of Ressentiment, and, hence, is the primary beneficiary of the cure of that affliction.  In other words, the affirmation of Eternal Recurrence effects Empowerment, which, as has been previously discussed, is Nietzsche's "gift" to humanity.  So, the doctrine that develops from that affirmation, e. g. the concept of the Philosopher as a commander, legislator, values-creator, anti-Christ, etc., presupposes that transformation as its context.  Accordingly, much subsequent prominent interpretation of, reaction to, and appropriation of Nietszche's writings, e. g. Militarism, Fundamental Ontology, Oligarchism, Egoism, etc., express untreated Ressentiment from outside that context.

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