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- Title
On Debt and Redemption: Friedrich Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence.
- Authors
Allen Gillespie, Michael
- Abstract
Abstract: 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.
- Subjects
DEBT; EXTERNAL debts; PUBLIC debts; DEBT management; DEBT cancellation
- Publication
Journal of Religious Ethics, 2018, Vol 46, Issue 2, p267
- ISSN
0384-9694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jore.12218