#1297 Neil Sinhababu: Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Neil Sinabu. He's an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore, and today we're talking about his book. Nietzsche on the eternal recurrence. So, Neil, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Uh thank you for having me. Hello, viewers. So first Uh to start off with, what is really the idea of the eternal return or the eternal recurrence? I mean, could you explain it to us?
Uh yes. The idea is that uh the universe will go in a sort of cyclical fashion where uh everything that happened uh uh before, well, uh uh It's uh we'll we'll have uh these lives that we have right now, we have them we've had them many times before, we'll have them many times again. Uh all the events that uh uh proceed from the present will sort of loop back to the present, and uh the future will be a series of sort of uh loops of the same thing happening over and over again, just as the past was. So the uh course of time through eternity proceeds in a circle with the same events happening over and over. And does this have anything to do with the nature of the universe itself?
Indeed, it is a distinctly cosmological hypothesis. It's a claim that the universe will take this kind of uh course, uh looping back on itself with the same events over and over. So what are then the cosmological arguments for the eternal recurrence? Yes, so there are two premises of the uh uh argument for the eternal recurrence. Uh-huh. First.
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