From “Nihilism” to “Laughing” －on Nietzsche’s Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence
Author：Li-Chi Huang
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In Nietzsche’s idea of “God is dead”, man has lost his validity in the origin of value, no longer holds the meaning and truth of constancy and eternity in the world of becoming built on “will to power”, but comprehends the meaning of existence through his relative and temporary validity and value. The present work attempts to seek in Nietzsche’s doctrine of eternal recurrence a possible comprehension and evaluation toward life other than “God is dead” or traditional metaphysics, and to create new values from the new way of understanding in the world of becoming. For this, the hypothesis addressed in the present work is: The doctrine of eternal recurrence is the manner of man’s self-evaluation. Its particularity lies in that, through this manner of evaluation, the meaning of the world of becoming is reserved on one hand, and the value of existence is created within nihilism and becoming on the other. This manner is presented in Nietzsche’s philosophy as a dynamic development from “nihilism” to “laughing”. Beyond all language and rationality, “laughing” has created a new point of view setting out from the body, and is the meaning of human as super-human.