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	Eternal return - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eternal return or sometimes eternal recurrence is an esoteric concept originating from ancient Egypt and developed in the teachings of Pythagoras.
		A large part of eternal recurrence is the idea that there is no final state of the universe, the universe merely cycles through the same states of matter and time with no destination.
		In modern times eternal recurrence was a major theme in the teachings of the Russian mystics Gurdjieff and P.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eternal_recurrence (1383 words)

	Eternal return - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The basic theory is that time is infinite, but there are a finite amount of actions in the universe, so all events will recur again and again infinitely.
		As described by Nietzsche, the eternal return is more than just an intellectual concept or challenge, it is akin to a koan, or a psychological device that occupies one's entire consciousness stimulating a transformation of consciousness known as metanoia.
		The key idea is that instead of the first sense, a return to the same state of affairs eternally, each quanta of force, of will to power, exerts its own creative will, thereby affirming that individual will, or individual creative act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eternal_return (1383 words)

	The Eternal Recurrence of "l'effroyablement ancien"
		Eternal recurrence (the first time), a forgetting of the self, predicated on a historical-self awareness, is a sudden forgetting of origins.
		For Deleuze, within the repetition in eternal recurrence, "death does not appear in the objective model of an indifferent inanimate matter to which the living would 'return'; it is present in the living in the form of a subjective and differentiated experience endowed with its prototype...
		With the affirmation of the eternal recurrence, both possibilities are deprived of their place within a teleological - their persistence or suspension in repetition speaks of this loss of history, and their persistence is the persistence of the enigma of architecture's dead language at the closure of history.
	www.pd.org /topos/perforations/perf20/mical.html (9928 words)

	PHIL2460:7 The Eternal Recurrence
		The basic conception of the work, the idea of eternal recurrence, the highest formula of affirmation that can possibly be attained belongs to the August of the year 1881: it was jotted down on a piece of paper with the inscription: '6,000 feet beyond man and time'.
		On this basis, eternal recurrence is normative, it represents a practical injunction to always act in such a way that one would be happy to live one's life in that way again, and again, and...
		Thus, whilst acceptance of the eternal recurrence does not negate the impression of having freewill, one feels forced to conclude that the various ways in which Nietzsche conceived his doctrine are not ultimately reconcilable.
	www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk /LNJ/phil2460/nietzsche7.htm (2163 words)

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		We can expect the truth of recurrence to be nauseating to someone whose life is based on the moralistic assumption that the meaning that there is in the world consists in the fact that events that are "wrong" in one way or another are corrected or "made up for" by decisive future events.
		We might say that the eternal recurrence enforces Nietzsche's dictum that "the present must absolutely not be justified by a future, nor the past by reference to the present."
		This means that the eternal recurrence of human mediocrity cannot be sickening for the same reason that, eg., a million-year-long sex act would be.
	philosophy.wisc.edu /hunt/ER&VIRT.htm (3899 words)

	Prof. Eric Steinhart 1998 - Eternal Recurrence You Have Infinitely Many Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Eternal recurrence, also known as the eternal return of the same, is the theory that history repeats itself exactly down to the smallest detail: you will be born again, you will live your whole life again, you will die again.
		Eternal recurrence is entirely materialistic or physical, since it is your physical body that recurs.
		Recurrence seems to me to be the best of all the theories of personal immortality, because it's the one that most preserves personal identity by preserving your body.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /steinhart.htm (2500 words)

	William M
		Nietzsche-Zarathustra has undertaken to bring his message of the eternal recurrence of the same to humanity and it is the acceptance of this doctrine that is to result in the birth of the new human: the superhuman.
		Similarly, Nietzsche’s concern in preaching the doctrine of eternal recurrence is not to introduce some curious cosmological doctrine but to provide a respectable route for humanity’s reaffirmation of life, to bring about the birth of the overman, (at last) the “healthy” individual who truly affirms life.
		For Nietzsche, this rooting of the doctrine of eternal recurrence might be thought of as necessary for development of an unconscious embodiment of a life-affirming attitude or instinct.
	www.manitowoc.uwc.edu /staff/awhite/BILL.2.htm (1775 words)

	Eternal Return
		Abstract Nietzsche and eternal recurrence by Graham Smith The paper is a discussion of the theme of eternal recurrence that Nietzsche develops throughout his later period.
		The eternal recurrence is brought about through a constant state of warfare, 'in times of peace the warrior turns upon himself' in which you make yourself stronger through increasing life while decreasing the feelings of revenge...
		The teaching of eternal return seems to me to be the essential element in Nietzsche's program to bring science under the care of philosophy-a seemingly preposterous program, given the reduced state of philosophy, given philosophy's capture by sciences already in the grip of an unarticulated philosophy.
	www.fortunecity.de /lindenpark/heiner/65/eternalreturn (6484 words)

	The Eternal Recurrence of the Same
		The eternal recurrence of the same, Nietzsche's heaviest thought, is a concept which is not easily graspable, and those attempting to grasp it must be forewarned of the intricacy and entanglement of Nietzsche's thought.
		Nietzsche gives forth two definitions of the eternal recurrence in his writings, one of time being a wheel in which the same point is reached over and over again and the other of a chaotic mass of finite atoms in infinite time repeating itself at random and not in the order of a wheel.
		He believed it "the highest formula of affirmation that is at all attainable, (the eternal recurrence) belongs in August 1881: it was penned on a sheet with the notation underneath '6000 feet beyond man and time'" He states that he came up with the idea while walking through the woods along the lake of Silvaplana.
	www.kipawa.com /philosophy/Nietzsche.htm (4729 words)

	SSRN-Can Lawyers Be Cured?: Nietzsche's Theory of Eternal Recurrence and the Lacanian Death Drive by Jeanne Schroeder
		She suggests, among other things, that eternal recurrence looks forward to Lacan's concept of drive: the abandonment of desire, understood as the pursuit of a teleological goal, in favor of circular, iterative activity.
		This Article first explores accounts of eternal recurrence and the case for treating it as a thought experiment, or theory of human nature, as opposed to a cosmology, or theory of nature.
		First, one simplistic version of the theory of eternal recurrence is an example of the masculine sexuated position - an attempt to deny the split or negativity that constitutes subjectivity that Nietzsche recognizes elsewhere in his work.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=413627 (549 words)

	NIETZSCHE'S ETERNAL RECURRENCE
		To simplify the theory of eternal recurrence further and give one more concrete example, suppose we have a necklace with an arrangement of a variety of colored beads on a string.
		That, in short, is the sum total of the doctrine of ‘eternal recurrence’, and its proof.
		Eternal Recurrence is even worse, in that it tells us not only airplanes, but human beings too, and elephants, and cows, serpents, spiders, and eagles… get reconstructed not once, but over, and over again by sheer permutation of matter.
	www.meskot.com /recurrence.htm (4922 words)

	Ephilosopher :: Continental Philosophy :: Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I find eternal recurrence less persuasive and interesting compared to the rest of his philosophy, and not essential to it.
		The eternal recurrence was not a metaphysical concept but a prescription as to how the Ubermensch should live his life.
		So I will acknowledge that there is evidence for the eternal recurrence as a metaphysical concept in Nietzsche’s work, but it is only in notes, he never advocated it in his lifetime in any of his writings meant for publication, and even if it were true, it is a useless concept.
	www.ephilosopher.com /phpBB_14-action-viewtopic-topic-2179-start-0.html (1230 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over and over, and you with it, a grain of dust.
		Eternal recurrence is simply the idea that everything has already happened for an eternity in the past, and will continue to happen over and over for an eternity.
		I think the idea of eternal recurrence is rather interesting, even though it may seem a bit off-the-wall.
	personal.ecu.edu /mccartyr/great/projects/Adams.htm (594 words)

	Hellenistic Astrology [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The early Stoic version of the eternal recurrence is that a great conflagration (ekpurôsis) marks a stage in the cycle of the reconstitution of the cosmos (apokatastasis).
		Heraclitus, whom the Stoics claimed as a precursor, possessed an earlier doctrine of conflagration, though it is not to be assumed that his generation and decay of the cosmos was measured by the planetary circuits, for its movement, to him, is a pathway up and down rather than circular (Diog.
		The eternal recurrence doctrine in Stoicism entails justification of divination and belief in the predictability of events.
	www.iep.utm.edu /a/astr-hel.htm (19004 words)

	John & Belle Have A Blog: You're the one for me, Fati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is an eloquent, moving allegory of Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal recurrence.
		At the end of this period, his animals hail him as "the teacher of eternal recurrence"; and it is they, not Zarathustra, that declare that they "know what you teach: that all things recur eternally, and we ourselves too; and we have already existed an eternal number of times, and all things with us [III.13].
		The idea of eternal recurrence is addressed perhaps even more directly in an earlier draft of the screenplay.
	examinedlife.typepad.com /johnbelle/2004/10/youre_the_one_f_1.html (4534 words)

	Blesok\|Shine23, essays - Stephanie Samler: Peter Greenaway and Nietzsche's Eternal Return
		Nevertheless, (2) he takes it for the most scientific of all possible hypotheses'1 and feels that any refusal to accept it because it is such a terrifying notion would be a sign of weakness.
		The simultaneous horror/ecstacy brought with the acceptance of the Eternal Recurrence is a feature of Nietzsche's Dionysian, formulated in his first book, The Birth of Tragedy.
		The Eternal Recurrence is a participation in the fate of the whole of the universe, and a sympathy to it.
	www.blesok.com.mk /tekst.asp?lang=eng&tekst=334 (1917 words)

	Deja Vu and the Eternal Recurrence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For those who do not know, Nietzsche’s theory of Eternal Recurrence is that time is infinite, and all matter within time is finite.
		The ethical motivation behind eternal recurrence is that you should live your life, day by day, so adventurously, and with such fulfillment, that you would want to live it again and again, for all eternity!
		The only nagging problem with Eternal Recurrence is that it means that you have lived your life before, exactly as you live it now.
	www.the600club.com /printthread.php?Board=satanism&main=10111&type=post (280 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"
		Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?...
		The idea of recurrence as a selective principle, in the service of strength (and barbarism!!)...
	www.pitt.edu /~wbcurry/nietzsche/nrecur.html (199 words)

	Douglas L. Berger: Nietzsche Contra Schopenhauer
		Despite Nietzsche's later ad hoc attempts to defend eternal recurrence as a "scientific" doctrine, it is clear from this and the other published passages dealing with it that Nietzsche's emphasis is not on the structure of the cosmos, rather solely on affirming life.
		In this, his first expression of the idea of eternal recurrence, Nietzsche offers us no promise of redemption in some future life, nor a greatly improved future for this one; rather our own life, to be lived again just as it has been lived, once more and "countless times" more.
		It is thus apparent that the eternal recurrence fails as a redemptive formula for life, for all living beings; it only works for those lucky few who can answer the daemon affirmatively in the first place, and thus pass the test.
	www.temple.edu /gradmag/summer99/berger.htm (3511 words)

	Eternal Recurrence of the Same - viewing options (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	www.nevilleart.com /gallery/pages/erschooser.html (210 words)

	The Philomathesian
		To understand what is meant by the talk of eternal recurrence, it is first necessary to grasp Nietzsche's more general view of the self, a view which is an unmistakable affront to common sense.
		Nietzsche's theory of eternal recurrence is the means by which he hopes the philosophers of the future will justify and redeem their lives.
		As such, the theory of eternal recurrence is a theory of justification which is intended to make the philosophers of the future like those courageous, unified, and stylish characters that are found in every great piece of literature.
	www.students.wfu.edu /philo/journal/spring98/nietzsche.html (5268 words)

	Nietzsche the Philosopher: Eternal Recurrence
		Finally he became convinced that there was no ground for such a belief in any of the known facts of science, and after that, we are told, his shuddering horror left him.
		It was then possible for him to deal with the doctrine of eternal recurrence as a mere philosophical speculation, without the uncomfortable reality of a demonstrated scientific fact, and thereafter he spent much time considering it.
		Despite Nietzsche's conclusion that the known facts of existence do not bear it out, and the essential impossibility of discussing it to profit, the doctrine of eternal recurrence is by no means unthinkable.
	www.geocities.com /danielmacryan/nietzsche10.html (2088 words)

	Friedrich Nietzsche
		To a similar end, Nietzsche's doctrine of eternal recurrence (sections 285 and 341) was formulated to draw attention away from all worlds other than the one in which we presently live, since eternal recurrence precludes the possibility of any final escape from the present world.
		The doctrine also functions as a measure for judging someone's overall psychological strength and mental health, since Nietzsche believed that the doctrine of eternal recurrence was the hardest world-view to accept and affirm.
		Nietzsche refers to this higher mode of being as "superhuman" (übermenschlich), and associates the doctrine of eternal recurrence -- a doctrine for only the healthiest who can love life in its entirety -- with this spiritual standpoint, in relation to which all-too-often downhearted, all-too-commonly-human attitudes stand as a mere bridge to be crossed and overcome.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/nietzsche (4711 words)

	Hausarbeiten.de: Nietzsche - Are amor fati and eternal recurrence compatible doctrines - Essay. Seminararbeiten, ...
		In regard to knowledge I will have to prove if eternal recurrence is comprehensible, to find out whether or not amor fati and eternal recurrence are working hand in hand.
		Secondly Nietzsche´s eternal recurrence can be seen hypothetically, as a game of thoughts, where one is asked to imagine his/her life recurring innumerable times in all its smallest details and should then react to this imagined state-of-affairs.
		The method of eternal recurrence can be rooted on physical or hypothetical evidence or it can be a matter of belief.
	www.hausarbeiten.de /faecher/vorschau/13832.html (985 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Eternal recurrence has to do with cosmology while reincarnation is basically a spiritual viewpoint.
		To explain eternal recurrence, one has to go back to the Cosmic Big Bang where all the matter in the universe accordingly was compressed into a primeval almost infinitely small primordial ball.
		It seems to me, however, that between eternal recurrence and reincarnation, there is more evidence for the latter though materialistic skeptics would challenge that statement.
	members.shaw.ca /andre-letain/Reinetf.htm (579 words)

	Philosophy of life as narrative: Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, The Heaviest Burden
		In order to make this interpretation of Nietzsche's The Heaviest Burden accessible I've used personal views to illustrate it, as a philosophy of a narrative of life and how Nietzsche's theory of eternal recurrence relates to this and an idea of life as art.
		The eternal hour glass of existence will be turned again and again - and you with it, you dust of dust!" - Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who thus spoke?
		There is a metaphysical theory of Eternal Recurrence in Nietzsche's text but this is also a "thought experiment".
	homepage.ntlworld.com /david.cox101/writing/eternal-recurrence.html (739 words)

	Beyond Good and Evil? A Buddhist Critique of Nietzsche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nietzsche found his answer in eternal recurrence, which solves the problem ingeniously: not by grounding this life in some otherworldly eternity but by impressing the form of eternity on this life.
		Eternal recurrence has been celebrated as the capstone of his philosophy, yet I shall argue that, instead of vanquishing nihilism, it eternally defers it.
		Eternal Recurrence insures that flight will have no cloture, for it tries to fill up lack by flight itself, by repeated recurrence of the passing moment.
	www.kat.gr /kat/history/Txt/nv/BuddhistNietzsche.htm (11252 words)

	Nietzsche's Eternal Return -- Essay at PhilosophyClassics.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He says that eternal return gives us “a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature”.
		creativity, giving style to one’s character, self-overcoming, control of the passions) is not right, and that the “ubermensch is instead the representation only of a particular attitude toward life that of a person who would have nothing more fervently than the eternal recurrence of each and every moment of his or her life”.
		Thinking about eternal recurrence thus seems to be a part of the process of becoming an ubermensch.
	www.philosophyclassics.com /essays/955 (1484 words)

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