Amor fati in the context of "Affirmation of life"

⭐ In the context of affirmation of life, *amor fati* is considered…

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⭐ Core Definition: Amor fati

Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate". It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary.

Amor fati is often associated with what Friedrich Nietzsche called "eternal recurrence", the idea that everything recurs infinitely over an infinite period of time. From this he developed a desire to be willing to live exactly the same life over and over for all eternity ("...long for nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal").

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👉 Amor fati in the context of Affirmation of life

Nietzschean affirmation (German: Bejahung) is a concept that scholars have identified in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. An example used to describe the concept is a fragment in Nietzsche's The Will to Power:

Nietzsche’s affirmative philosophy, as expressed in his parable about eternal recurrence, places his conception of amor fati and his instruction towards the positive embrace of the will to power in a cosmically expanded and universally determined context. Only the embrace of what is and will be, according to the will and its position within natural accident, constitutes freedom (or its nameless equivalent) in Nietzsche’s vision. The ethical injunction about what should be is dismissed by this parable.

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