Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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How does one reconcile the superman with the idea of eternal return?
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Mar 09, 2017 08:58PM
The concept of the superman is based on transcendence. But the notion of eternal return is about willing the return of the same. How does one reconcile this apparent contradiction?
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From Wikipedia:
"Amor fati (lit. "love of fate") is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate". It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one's life and existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not. Moreover, amor fati is characterized by an acceptance of the events or situations that occur in one's life.
This acceptance does not necessarily preclude an attempt at change or improvement, but rather, it can be seen to be along the lines of what Nietzsche means by the concept of "eternal recurrence": a sense of contentment with one's life and an acceptance of it, such that one could live exactly the same life, in all its minute details, over and over for all eternity."
I think, in this sense, that the "transcendence" of the superman comes from within. Not willing a change in these recurring circumstances (which Nietzsche viewed as a law of nature, I guess), but changing/controlling your perception of them so that you only gain from them, thereby logically willing their recurrence.
That's how I understand it, anyway. I'm hardly a sophisticated reader of Nietzche. I barely got through Zarathustra. :)
"Amor fati (lit. "love of fate") is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate". It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one's life and existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not. Moreover, amor fati is characterized by an acceptance of the events or situations that occur in one's life.
This acceptance does not necessarily preclude an attempt at change or improvement, but rather, it can be seen to be along the lines of what Nietzsche means by the concept of "eternal recurrence": a sense of contentment with one's life and an acceptance of it, such that one could live exactly the same life, in all its minute details, over and over for all eternity."
I think, in this sense, that the "transcendence" of the superman comes from within. Not willing a change in these recurring circumstances (which Nietzsche viewed as a law of nature, I guess), but changing/controlling your perception of them so that you only gain from them, thereby logically willing their recurrence.
That's how I understand it, anyway. I'm hardly a sophisticated reader of Nietzche. I barely got through Zarathustra. :)
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