eternal recurrence

Noun

Meaning

eternal recurrence (uncountable)

(cosmology, religion, philosophy) The belief or theory that all the events in cosmic history repeat in an endless cycle.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

eternal return

Examples

Alexander Nehamas writes in Nietzsche: Life as Literature of three ways of seeing the eternal recurrence: "(A) My life will recur in exactly identical fashion." Source: Internet

Dienstag 2009, p. 181 A key feature of this Dionysian pessimism was 'saying yes' to the changing nature of the world, this entailed embracing destruction and suffering joyfully, forever (hence the ideas of amor fati & eternal recurrence ). Source: Internet

Nietzsche's ideas of the ' eternal recurrence ' and of ' Übermensch ' remained long in my mind. Source: Internet

The critique of metaphysics put forward in this book had its starting point in Hausdorff's confrontation with Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence. Source: Internet

Willing the eternal recurrence is presented as accepting the existence of the low while still recognizing it as the low, and thus as overcoming the spirit of gravity or asceticism. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

eternal now eternal oblivion eternal punishment eternal rest eternal rest bringer eternal return