Eternal Return (Nietzsche)

[Nederburg]

What do you think about the Eternal Return? Did Nietzsche really thought that everything happens again and again or was it just wishfull thinking?

[Dunai]

I am not yet fully familiar with all his major theorems, even though I admire his thinking greatly, but I would doubt that someone with his greatly skeptical and critical thought process would embrace an idea as mystical and full of religious esotericism as the "eternal return".

[PurityandPain]

Nietzsche was rather skeptical of many things, but not a total skeptic. He bashed skeptics for not being decisive enough to exercise their will to power.

There is a certain spiritual aspect to his philosophy that mainstream (especially leftists) academics ignore.