Eternal Recurrence and Evolvement

Few self-styled 'Nietzscheans' have reckoned with one of his central thoughts, 'Eternal Recurrence', and many of those who have classify it as a topic in the Philosophy of Time. They thus miss its lineage from Schopenhauer's Naturalistic challenge to Hegelian Spiritualism, i. e. regarding the privileged status in Nature that the latter accords Humanity, and, so, they miss how Eternal Recurrence serves as correction to the nihilistic Pessimism that Schopenhauerism can breed. For Nietzsche, the thinking of Eternal Recurrence is high noon, the incipience of self-creation through self-affirmation, the moment when the God of Formlessness, Dionysus, looks in the mirror, in which Apollo, the God of Form, appears. It is, thus, far from happenstance that Nietzsche hencforth devoted himself with developing his theory of Will to Power, a Form-creating force. While Evolvementalism rejects the implication that the Formal Principle is derivative, and that Eternal Recurrence is the soundest theory of Temporality, it recognizes in Nietzsche's thinking of Eternal Recurrence an emergence of an Individual, and of the potential for Humans to make History, not merely to suffer it, be it Natural or Spiritual.