Sunday, May 19, 2013

Eternal Recurrence, Self-Affirmation, Holism

As has been previously proposed here, the 'theory of Eternal Recurrence', i. e. a concept of Temporality, often ascribed to Nietzsche, abstracts from what is, more precisely, his doctrine of the affirmation of Eternal Recurrence, i. e. a "teaching", as he sometimes characterizes it, e. g. in Ecce Homo.  But, the 'affirmation of Eternal Recurrence', which suggests that the Temporal concept is the object of affirmation, is still elliptical.  For, as is clear from The Gay Science, #341, that object is: the Eternal Recurrence of the totality of the events in one's own life.  So, the fundamental object of the affirmation is that totality, with respect to which the attribution of Eternal Recurrence is heuristic.  In other words, the rubric 'Nietzsche's theory of Eternal Recurrence' abstracts from what is fundamentally 'Nietzsche's Holistic doctrine of Self-Affirmation'..

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