Eternal Recurrence & Amor Fati

In the Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche expressed his New Year's Resolution as this,

"For the New Year—I still live, I still think; I must still live, for I must still think. Sum, ergo cogito: cogito, ergo sum. To-day everyone takes the liberty of expressing his wish and his favorite thought: well, I also mean to tell what I have wished for myself today, and what thought first crossed my mind this year,—a thought which ought to be the basis, the pledge and the sweetening of all my future life! I want more and more to perceive the necessary characters in things as the beautiful:—I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. Amor fati: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse the accusers. Looking aside, let that be my sole negation! And all in all, to sum up: I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!"

With the recognition of the human desire for eternity, Nietzsche gave a thought experiment of an Eternal Recurrence. What if we relived the same exact life as we have lived and are living now over and over again in an eternal sequence? What attitudes would we have toward our past, what aims would we look toward into the future? This week we will look at Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence and its connection to his notion of Amor Fati with its benefits and issues.

Access to the meeting is available via the Discord link.

Suggested reading:

https://philosophynow.org/issues/137/Eternal_Recurrence_Revisited