The following is an excerpt from Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Life"
"Nietzsche often entangled with philosophers - a mysterious "return of all catastrophe": think about what we have experienced, think about them repeating as yesterday, even The repetition itself repeats itself endlessly! What does this mad phantasmagoria mean? The phantasy of
"Eternal Return", on the other hand, shows that a life that once disappeared is as weightless as a shadow and will never disappear. It's back. Whether it's scary, beautiful, or sublime, its terror, sublime, and beauty are all dead beforehand and have no meaning. It's like some fourteenth-century war between African tribes, some failure In the war that changed the fate of the world, we don't need to care too much about the extermination of 100,000 black people in the cruel ordeal.
However, if the war between two African secretaries in the fourteenth century was repeated again and again, the war itself would have Has it changed? Yes, it will become a perpetually bulging lump that will never return to its original void.
If the French Revolution were to repeat itself endlessly, French historians would not be interested in Robespierre I feel so proud. It is precisely because the things they are involved in will not return, so the bloody era of the revolution has become nothing more than words, theories and discussions. It has become lighter than a feather and can not scare anyone. This is in history. Robespierre, who only appeared once, is not the same as the Robespierre who returned forever, who would also cut off 10,000 heads in France.
So, let us admit, this concept of eternal return contains a kind of perspective, it makes what we know seem to be something else, seems to have lost the mitigating environment that the temporality of things brings that can make it difficult for us to decide. How can we condemn those moments of What about things that have passed away? The sun that revealed the insight into them has gone down, and one can only justify everything, including the guillotine, by the dim light of recollection."
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