ETERNAL RECURRENCE

In the darkness of the night, when you go to bed, a creepy demon will slip through your window, and whisper in your ear, “This life as you now living it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more.” You are really close to repeat your life all over again. What would be your answer?

www.reinwardtcommunity.nl/nl/page/16298/eternal-recurrence Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 - 25 book, The Gay Science. Nietzsche mentioned about August 1900) German philologist, philosopher, eternal recurrence in Aphorism 341, “The Greatest cultural critic, poet and composer. He has written Weight”. critical articles on religion, morality, modern culture, “What, if some day or night a demon were to steal philosophy and science in a style full of metaphor, after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to irony and aphorism. Death of God, Apollonian and you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, Dionysian, perspectivism, will to power, and eternal you will have to live once more and innumerable recurrence form Nietzsche’s ideas most. What creates times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but the center of his philosophy is the questioning of any every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh discipline that exploits the great energy of the person, and everything unutterably small or great in your no matter how socially effective. life will have to return to you, all in the same Unlike the known, Nietzsche was succession and sequence—even this spider not the first who come up with the idea of and this moonlight between the trees, eternal recurrence, this idea has existed and even this moment and I myself. in different forms since ancient time. The eternal hourglass of existence is Basically, the idea refers that existence turned upside down again and again, occurs in an infinite loop over and over and you with it, speck of dust!’ again. In ancient Greece, the Stoics According to philosopher Friedrich believed that the universe went through Nietzsche, your answer to the demon’s repeating stages of transformation. question determines how successful you Similarly, in Hinduism and Buddhism were at living. the consept of Wheel of time says • The person who embraces eternal that, time is a cyclical and it recurrence as a blessing from divine is consisting of repeating ages. living a worthwhile life. We can draw an analogy • The person who curses eternal between the theory and the film on DVD. recurrence as a torment sent from devil When we finish watching the film, we can ought to consider changing the path replay it from the beginning. Film does not of life on which he is treading. change and the actors live the same life. As conclusion, eternal To make the idea clearer, i will recurrence is the theory that illustrate it with a scene time is like a circle and the from “True Detective”. life that we are living is have Character Rust Cohle wallpapercave.com/friedrich-nietzsche-wallpapers lived before and will be living explain the theory as “Time is a flat circle. Everything innumerable times for eternity. In short our lives are we have ever done or will do, we are going to do over like film on DVD. But here comes the question, who is and over and over again. You are reborn, but into the same life that you have always been born into.” pressing replay button? REFERENCES https://www.thoughtco.com/nietzsches-idea-of-the-eternal-recurrence-2670659 One of the most famous ideas of Nietzsche, eternal https://curiosity.com/topics/the-eternal-return-theory-says-youre-not-the-first-youto-live-your-life-curiosity/ recurrence, appears in one of the most famous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPzg-r-SN54 http://analogrevolution.com/eternal-recurrence/ Yusuf YILDIZ