Historic recurrence
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Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept which posits that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space. The concept is found in Indian philosophy and in ancient Egypt and was subsequently taken up by the Pythagoreans and Stoics. With the decline of antiquity and the spread of Christianity, the concept fell into disuse in the western world, though Friedrich Nietzsche resurrected it as a thought experiment to argue for amor fati.
In addition, the philosophical concept of eternal recurrence was addressed by Arthur Schopenhauer. It is a purely physical concept, involving no supernatural reincarnation, but the return of beings in the same bodies. Time is viewed as being not linear but cyclical.
See also
- Cyclical pattern
- Endless knot
- Ergodic theory
- Eternal Return (Eliade)
- Eternalism (philosophy of time)
- Historic recurrence
- Infinite loop
- Mandala
- Möbius strip
- Nikolay Danilevsky
- Ourobouros
- Poincaré recurrence theorem
- Universal Function
