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Here's my latest piece for the magazine "Philosophy Now" on the idea of eternal recurrence, and how it reappeared, appropriately enough, in the Stoics, Indian cosmology, and Nietzsche:
In reply to Oh no Peter not again... nice by Karl Young
In reply to Maybe next time around? by Peter Adamson
Karl Young on 4 August 2020
:-) Well, given the
:-) Well, given the relatively recent developments re. chaos, maybe there’s some room for a slight glitch in the recurrence...
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Oh no Peter not again... nice
Oh no Peter not again... nice piece, covering quite a bit of ground (Nietzsche, the Stoics, Hindu philosophy,...) quickly - too bad you didn’t have room to add anything about Boltzmann and his physics cronies re. their contribution via ergodic theory - that’s a catchy version...