On Debt and Redemption
Friedrich Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Allen Gillespie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 267-287 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jore.12218 |
| OpenAlex | W2805613980 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
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
Christianity · Contradiction · Debt · Doctrine · Economics · Epistemology · Theology · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |