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Posted by emily on 1/13/2008, 11:51 pm, in reply to "Re: amor fati"
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amor fati is essentially loving the eternal recurrence of the same. like that passage in gay science: if someone told you that every event of your life, everything great and small, all the failures and successes, would be repeated eternally,..etc. so it's kinda oversimplifying it to say that amor fati is opportunistic, especially as it's past, present, and future looking and it's not necesarily personal. so, e.g., someone full of regret, even regret over, say, the rise of christianity, wouldn't have complete amor fati. in short, amor fati is something like a psychological disposition in which one looks at everything w/in one's perspective and whole-heartedly affirms it. note that that doesn't mean one ignores or downplays the bad, evil elements--see nietzsche's tragic view of life (especially: birth of tragedy). in fact, the more evil and truth one can affirm, the stronger [or more ascendant (as opposed to decadent)] one is. this is where the ubermensch comes in: the ubermensch overcomes. it's important to note here that nietzsche isn't using "overcome" in the sense of "nullifying" but rather "sublimating"
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: does nietzsche's injunction "amor
: fati" imply he believed every obstacle
: that arises in life was an opportunity to
: grow towards one's full potential?
: (presumably the "ubermensch".)
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: Maybe not every obstacle. I'm thinking of
: this from "Wagner at Bayreuth:"
: "To me the most vital question of
: philosophy appears to be the extent of the
: unchangeable character of the world; so
: that, once the answer to that question is
: known, one can strive to improve the
: changeable part with the most ruthless
: courage."
: I think this phrase contains both amor fati
: and the going beyond the ordinary (towards
: the over-human).
: Thomas
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