![]() ![]() Furthermore, if we are to confront this “greatest heavy weight” we may understandably worry about how to avoid being crushed, as Nietzsche warns us might happen. Many commentators have been puzzled by how we should understand the thought of eternal recurrence and by the role it plays in Nietzsche’s philosophy. ![]() This sequence is not accidental, as the confrontation with the thought of the eternal return is a key topic of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In aphorism 341 of the Gay Science, “The greatest heavy weight” ( Das grösste Schwergewicht), Nietzsche presents his readers with the following question: How would they welcome the thought that they had to live their lives “once again and innumerable times again,” down to the smallest details? How would this thought of eternal recurrence transform them? Would it, as the heaviest burden, crush them? In the following and last aphorism of the 1882 edition of the book, we are introduced to the protagonist of Nietzsche’s next work, namely Zarathustra. ![]()
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