Talk:Friedrich Nietzsche/@comment-3338975-20120711014828/@comment-3338975-20120718204024

From what I understand about the concept of eternal return, one does indeed keep repeating the same things one did in their past life over and over again, but that doesn't mean that one isn't open to changing the basic manner of which one acts during the remainder of one's life after the point(s) at which one embraces eternal return. It seems to me that Nietzche's philosophy does intend to help men and women better themselves, but by helping them purge the degrading moral ideologies that they are slavishly attached from their thoughts and thus remove the key historical block to embracing the body's true manner of forcing its needs upon the world as the source of moral evaluation.

Nietzche's thought taken by itself does seem to lack a motivational concept which would compell one to embracing the body's true manner of forcing its needs upon the world as the source of moral evaluation if one gave it intellectual assent. This I would attribute to Nietzche's Romantic inclination to believe in "noble savagery", which assumes that people will automatically do that which is good for them if the effects of "key" historical developments are prevented from blocking them from acting in such a manner. In my amended version (if you are interested in that), the assumption of the universe's perpetual drive towards self-cessation provides the motivational concept which Nietzche himself seems to lack, as the Romantic's assumed "solid bedrock" of "noble savagery" ceases to exist and moral action takes place as a result of the desire to assure one's affirmation of its eternal return which must come into existence under such conditions if one's good in the world is to be solidified against the self-cessation of one's position. Hope that helps, Omar.