Episode 214: More Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Endless Recurrence
West: I'm not sure how superior this is as a solution to an existential view. It's a hard book to read. The benefit of saying that it's recurring is that it makes willing more than a metaphor. But i can't will things that are actually, strictly speaking, in the past. Any power of my will would seem to have been deluded yet. That is exactly why he doesn't like heaven or anything else that transcended the current world. He says his interpretation of eternal return has something to do with getting outside of time. "Every moment is in some sense eternal when you're standing outside of it"
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