# Eternal recurrence

- Id: `eternal_recurrence`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/eternal-recurrence/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `f5004901439d1139e2367135605707f1eb90ad6bd6342911b33140b4d6d95304`

## Summary

Eternal recurrence tests a life by asking whether one could will every choice and suffering to return without end, without necessarily turning the question into a cosmological dogma.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 3,590 passages across 25 works, including Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Thus Spoke Zarathustra I, Thus Spoke Zarathustra II. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:nietzsche.zarathustra_3:b0050.s02",
    "passage:nietzsche.gay_science:b0355",
    "passage:nietzsche.ecce_homo:b0051"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "éternel retour",
    "eternal recurrence",
    "ewige wiederkunft",
    "ewige wiederkehr"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 25,
    "passages": 3590,
    "thinkers": 2,
    "traditions": 2
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "psychology",
        "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/psychology-and-psychoanalysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "freud.jenseits_lustprinzips",
        "title": "Beyond the Pleasure Principle",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/jenseits-lustprinzips/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.zarathustra_1",
        "title": "Thus Spoke Zarathustra I",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/zarathustra-1/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.zarathustra_2",
        "title": "Thus Spoke Zarathustra II",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/zarathustra-2/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.zarathustra_3",
        "title": "Thus Spoke Zarathustra III",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/zarathustra-3/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.zarathustra_4",
        "title": "Thus Spoke Zarathustra IV",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/zarathustra-4/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.david_strauss",
        "title": "David Strauss",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/david-strauss/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.antichrist",
        "title": "The Antichrist",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/antichrist/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.case_wagner",
        "title": "The Case of Wagner",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/case-wagner/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.birth_of_tragedy",
        "title": "The Birth of Tragedy",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/birth-of-tragedy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.gay_science",
        "title": "The Gay Science",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/gay-science/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.dionysian_dithyrambs",
        "title": "Dionysian Dithyrambs",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/dionysian-dithyrambs/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.ecce_homo",
        "title": "Ecce Homo",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/ecce-homo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.new_year_word",
        "title": "A New Year's Word",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/new-year-word/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.twilight_idols",
        "title": "Twilight of the Idols",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/twilight-idols/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.idylls_messina",
        "title": "Idylls from Messina",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/idylls-messina/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.beyond_good_evil",
        "title": "Beyond Good and Evil",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/beyond-good-evil/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.human_all_too_human_1",
        "title": "Human, All Too Human I",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/human-all-too-human-1/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.human_all_too_human_2",
        "title": "Human, All Too Human II",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/human-all-too-human-2/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.daybreak",
        "title": "Daybreak",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/daybreak/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.nietzsche_contra_wagner",
        "title": "Nietzsche contra Wagner",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/nietzsche-contra-wagner/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.wagner_bayreuth",
        "title": "Richard Wagner in Bayreuth",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/wagner-bayreuth/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.schopenhauer_educator",
        "title": "Schopenhauer as Educator",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/schopenhauer-educator/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.socrates_greek_tragedy",
        "title": "Socrates and Greek Tragedy",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/socrates-greek-tragedy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.use_abuse_history",
        "title": "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/use-abuse-history/"
    },
    {
        "id": "nietzsche.genealogy_morality",
        "title": "On the Genealogy of Morality",
        "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/nietzsche/genealogy-morality/"
    }
]
```