In the 19th century, Nietzsche used eternal return as a thought experiment, as perhaps the Stoics had done, to determine the degree to which our individual will is aligned with the will of the world.

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So it’s serendipitous that today is Groundhog Day given that the movie—not the “holiday”—is one of the best expressions of one of Nietzsche’s central ideas: Eternal recurrence—or ...

Source: Wikimedia commons, public domain. Possibly under the influence of Plato, who was himself influenced by Pythagoras, the Stoics held that the universe undergoes cycles, being periodically ...

Enthusiasm for Obama among the scribbling classes–journalists, academics, most beneficiaries of tertiary education, and, ex officio, “community organizers” of all descriptions–puts me in mind of ...