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On Debt and Redemption: Friedrich Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence

Author(s) -

Allen Gillespie Michael

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of religious ethics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 1467-9795

pISSN - 0384-9694

DOI - 10.1111/jore.12218

Subject(s) - doctrine , debt , philosophy , contradiction , christianity , epistemology , economics , theology , finance

In this essay, I argue that the notion of monetary debt does not displace but merely conceals our deeper, ontological debt to the sources of our being and way of life. I suggest that first Christianity and then modern science attempted to find a means of redemption that could free us from debt, but that both were unable to reconcile the ideas of freedom and indebtedness. I then examine the way in which Friedrich Nietzsche tried to resolve the apparent contradiction of our debt to the past and our freedom to shape the future by developing a new form of redemption rooted in his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.

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