German Philosophy: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
Red Menace
The Concept of Eternal Recurrence
The question of repeating one's life unchanged indefinitely causes us to consider whether or not we truly love life. Life according to Nietzsche is inherently composed of suffering alongside joy, pain alongside pleasure, and boredom alongside amusement. To reject the offer of eternal recurrence is to deny the value of life itself,. It's to loathe reality, for what it is and demand that it be otherwise.
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