RE: ER as Ethical Thought

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De: Leonardo Raggo [SMTP:ac857@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca]
Enviado el: lunes 2 de junio de 1997 18:55
Para: nietzsche@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Asunto: Re: ER as Ethical Thought

It should be bourne in mind that the eternal recurrence does not in=20
any way justify existence; it's precisely Nietzsche attempt to break =
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such a hangman's metaphysics that wants to pass judgment on existence. =
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doesn't justify life because it's an empty, profitless repetition. This=20
is also its harshness that tears us away from the basic assumptions =
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what ethics is all about, of all the exchanges that take place, of =
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to be and passing away and how that is conceived in the larger scheme of =

things. It doesn't salvage anything for the next cycle but its own=20
escessiveness, its lack of profit or return. It doesn't open any "other" =

possibility, any difference whatsoever which makes it strangely=20
inconceivable, as what defies the finite repetitions required by =
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by projecting an infinity or eternity that doesn't enclose any identity=20
but its vast and empty being. Nietzsche's operation at this point is to=20
always hesitate, to dramatize, to introduce distancing fictions, dwarves =

and animals, that speak for him and Zarathustra. His difficulty is=20
focused on the elliptical in the ER. It differs mostly in how we respond =

to the insight that life is in vain, that in the eyes of eternity it is=20
not justified or consummated but is always an excessive passion for =
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and expending, an overflow and not an accumulation upon which we can=20
reflect. The will does not will backwards but can only say to the future =

"thus I willed it" and streak down into its comic conclusions. There is =
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radical impotence involved with ER that shakes our grasp upon the=20
"honest, old ego", that makes such a thought unbearable and useless for =
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moralizing metaphysics, that makes it unreal, unsatisfying but for all=20
that selective.

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Since our real matter is a discussion on Nietzsche's topics I want to =
introduce another one: the relation of N and the voyages. How to =
understand that characterization of himself as the "fugitivus errans"?Or =
that "pathos of distance"?
If somebody can give me hints about this, I'll be very thankfull=20
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