Nietzsche's eternal recurrence (eternal return) is a life-changing idea. It is the idea your whole life – past, present, and future – repeats exactly as it is, forever. On the face of it, this is an abstract notion, totally irrelevant to lived experience. But should you dare to take it seriously, should you dare to assume it could be true, the eternal return reveals its terrifying depth. It reveals, also, its potential to change your life forever.
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📚 Recommended Reading
▶ Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra
▶ Friedrich Nietzsche: Ecce Homo
▶ Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
▶ Karl Löwith: Nietzsche’s Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence
▶ Rose Pfeffer: Eternal Recurrence in Nietzsche's Philosophy
▶ Philip J. Kain: Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence, and the Horror of Existence
▶ Walter Kaufmann: Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
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🎶 Music used
▶ original S2S score by @RMSounds [including that 🔥 beat at the end]
▶ YouTube Audio library and various Public Domain recordings
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuEhp6zyYno&ab_channel=PetriRotsten
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tacL-sG-C0I&ab_channel=Orchid%27sVoid
▶Metaphysik by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Check out the amazing beats by RM Sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecEIcMibwc4&ab_channel=RMSounds
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⌛ Timestamps
05:10 Recurrence as Being & Becoming
13:20 Recurrence as a Challenge
18:03 Recurrence as the Will to Power
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📝 Script
You can read the script of this video here: https://www.seekertoseeker.com/nietzsches-deepest-idea-eternal-recurrence/