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Nietzsche

Nietzsche & the Eternal Recurrence

J. Harvey Lomax on the love of eternity.

Dedicated to Professor Hans-Georg Gadamer on his 100th birthday.

“Docemur disputare, non vivere.”
(“We are taught how to discuss and debate, but not how to live.”)
Seneca Epistulae morales 95, 13

In the twentieth century “the plebeianism of the modern spirit, which is of English origin, erupted once again on its native soil…” (Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, I, 4). We stubborn Anglophones long resisted the philosophical movements of phenomenology and existentialism, Nietzsche’s heirs, during the generations of their intellectual conquest of Europe.

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