Nietzsche in Context

Small, Robin

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“…doppelgängers) cannot be my own experiences in any relevant sense, it cannot compel us to take our choices and lives more seriously because they lack connection with our present self. 14 Although this has spawned some interesting academic debate in the secondary literature (see, for example, Löwith, 1978Löwith, /1997Magnus, 1978;Nehamas, 1985;Reginster, 2006;Simmel, 1986;Small, 2001Small, , 2006Soll, 1973), I agree with Clark (1990) that Nietzsche's thought experiment is meant to be significant and understood in a practical way in our present lives. By Nietzsche framing the thought experiment in the way he does, it compels us to assess our present self (being) or what one is now, and whether we have become what one is, in light of our own 'conscience' (GS, §270).…”

Section: Nietzsche's Doctrine Of the Eternal Recurrence And Its Signi...mentioning

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Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence and Education: The Role of the Great Cultivating Thought in the Art of Self‐Cultivation ( Bildung )

Stolz

2020

J Philosophy of Edu

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In this essay, I briefly outline Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal recurrence that has implications for education, and life in general; and, lastly, I argue that from an educational point of view, Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal recurrence is best viewed as the great cultivating thought that has radical ramifications for any project of character education. Indeed, Nietzsche's concern with self-cultivation (Bildung) to a large degree brings together the central tenets of his thinking to emphasise an ethics of character that is meant to serve as an alternative approach to cultivating character or the self in such a way that it reveals 'what one is' now (being), and who they could become (becoming). In order to bring this about, Nietzsche does not conceive the eternal recurrence as a theoretical doctrine, but as an exercise that we incorporate into our lives as a habitual practice, vis-à-vis, through repeated and prolonged meditation, reflection, thought and dialogue on the significance of the idea in such a way that it transforms the individual for the better. Subsequently, the idea of the eternal recurrence only becomes cultivating and truly educational if it transforms our lives in such a way that we come to revalue the self as a work of art to a point where we are able to educate ourselves against our age.

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Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence and Education: The Role of the Great Cultivating Thought in the Art of Self‐Cultivation ( Bildung )

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2020

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“…It is worth noting that this idea of Teichmüller’s was picked up and developed into his own philosophical platform by Friedrich Nietzsche, Teichmüller’s former colleague at the University of Basel, which is why perspectivism is today associated with Nietzsche rather than with Teichmüller. The research of the last few years has, however, convincingly demonstrated that although in his published works Nietzsche never directly refers to the Tartu philosopher, his notebooks offer clear testimony that he picked up the idea of perspectivism from Teichmüller, whose works he read with great interest in the 1880s (D’Iorio, 1993: 283–94; Orsucci, 1997; Holub, 2002: 126–7; Riccardi, 2009; Small, 2010: 89, 115–16; Small, 2011: 43–56).…”

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Toward a reterritorialization of cultural theory

Tamm

Kull

2016

History of the Human Sciences

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This article argues that from a territorial perspective a certain coherence and continuity can be identified in the Estonian cultural-theoretical tradition – a discursive body based on common sources of influence and similar fundamental attitudes. We understand Estonian theory as a local episteme – a territorialized web of epistemological associations and rules for making sense of the world, which favours some premises while discouraging others. The article focuses on the older layers of Estonian theory, discussing the work of Karl Ernst von Baer, Victor Hehn, Gustav Teichmüller, Jakob von Uexküll, Hermann Keyserling, Johannes Gabriel Granö, Juri Lotman a.o. We examine the philosophical foundations of Estonian theory as well as its main epistemic facets. The article concludes that the conceptualization of Estonian theory could contribute to a general transformation of contemporary (cultural) theory, a redefining of the relations between the centre and the peripheries.

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Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence

Sinhababu

2024

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The idea of the eternal recurrence is that we will live the exact same lives again an infinite number of times. Nietzsche appreciates that this would multiply the value of a single life by infinity, justifying intense emotional responses. His unpublished notes provide a cosmological argument for the eternal recurrence that anticipates Poincaré's recurrence theorem. Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra describes its hero discovering this idea and struggling to accept the recurrence of all bad things. He eventually comes to love the eternal recurrence because it will bring back all the joys of his life, and teaches this idea to others.

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Nietzsche in Context

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Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence and Education: The Role of the Great Cultivating Thought in the Art of Self‐Cultivation ( Bildung )

Nietzsche, Eternal Recurrence and Education: The Role of the Great Cultivating Thought in the Art of Self‐Cultivation ( Bildung )

Toward a reterritorialization of cultural theory

Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence

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