Here’s the answer: The eternal recurrence is simply a thought experiment, a “formula,” a kind of paradorically expressed "test" to determine one’s degree of affirmation of life. Saying “yes” (as elaborated in Thus Spoke Zarathustra) represents the highest possible love of fate. This excerpt from Ecce Homo validates my point: “(…) der Ewige-Wiederkunfts-Gedanke, diese höchste Formel der Bejahung, die überhaupt erreicht werden kann (…)”. It's certainly the "Heaviest Burden"...
Thank you for explaining will and its connection to holism! This is perhaps overly literal and obvious, but I had this thought about recurrence. The recurrence hypothetical seems rooted in Newtonian determinism, but maybe we wouldn't believe it today... we know about physical chaos, that small changes lead to large differences, giving us a more contingent world. So if there were any error or indeterminacy in the system (in the interactions between objects), things wouldn't recur exactly. When you talk about the difficulty of changing a life despite a fixed past, this made me think of the "bad faith" of Sartre's existentialism. It wants us to believe we have the potential for radical change, despite our past and roles.
Excited at the promise of more on Nietzsche. It seems like N’s thoughts were works in progress and maybe ER was not completely fleshed out. Deleuze also has an influential reading of N. and ER which I hope you will address.
It's a thought experiment. Would you do it, if your life would be on repeat indefinitely. Duhuh. ("Live as if your life is on repeat indefinitely.") Yeah, it gives significance to your every (minor) action; So it's a technique. ("Magic" as some would call it. 😋)
Thank you! Please keep these videos going, your an amazing teacher :)
Here’s the answer: The eternal recurrence is simply a thought experiment, a “formula,” a kind of paradorically expressed "test" to determine one’s degree of affirmation of life. Saying “yes” (as elaborated in Thus Spoke Zarathustra) represents the highest possible love of fate. This excerpt from Ecce Homo validates my point: “(…) der Ewige-Wiederkunfts-Gedanke, diese höchste Formel der Bejahung, die überhaupt erreicht werden kann (…)”. It's certainly the "Heaviest Burden"...
Thank you for explaining will and its connection to holism!
This is perhaps overly literal and obvious, but I had this thought about recurrence. The recurrence hypothetical seems rooted in Newtonian determinism, but maybe we wouldn't believe it today... we know about physical chaos, that small changes lead to large differences, giving us a more contingent world. So if there were any error or indeterminacy in the system (in the interactions between objects), things wouldn't recur exactly.
When you talk about the difficulty of changing a life despite a fixed past, this made me think of the "bad faith" of Sartre's existentialism. It wants us to believe we have the potential for radical change, despite our past and roles.
I really like the videos, great thinking
Excited at the promise of more on Nietzsche. It seems like N’s thoughts were works in progress and maybe ER was not completely fleshed out. Deleuze also has an influential reading of N. and ER which I hope you will address.
Wasn't this concept addressed in the first Back to the Future film?
As a father I think of it as generational. Will that make sense? Sure is not a 109% copy but it is somehow a copy
I think I've seen this video before.
@@SvenErik_Lindstrom3 Certainly if you were to live once more, you'd watch it again!
@@VictorGijsbers No, no, I have already lived once before and I remember this well.
It's a thought experiment. Would you do it, if your life would be on repeat indefinitely. Duhuh. ("Live as if your life is on repeat indefinitely.")
Yeah, it gives significance to your every (minor) action; So it's a technique. ("Magic" as some would call it. 😋)
@@Nemesis_69-i9l But if it's only a technique, why did Nietzsche call it his central idea? :D