Write a short (4-5 page, intriguingly titled, double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, with one inch margins and page numbers on all but the first page) paper in reply to one of the prompts listed below. Refrain from the use of sources beyond those assigned in the course syllabus. Avoid the use of long citations from our texts by summarizing the way in which the author’s meaning intersects the overall thematic core of your paper. When you do, however, need to allow the author to speak for himself, you should always re-contextualize the citation by explaining its meaning and relevance to your project. Use footnotes rather than cumbersome in-text citation. And, by all means, do not waste time with introductory and concluding paragraphs that simply anticipate and
restate that which should already be obvious to any reader, given a clear and well worked-out paper.
TOPIC: Given the possibility of history moving backward, what might Descartes and Plato have had to say about Nietzsche’s perspectivism (discussed in part in aphorism #374 from Gay
Science)? Is perspectivism in any sense contrary to absolutism? How so? What does
Nietzsche mean when he says, “God is dead”? Give attention to the passages in Nietzsche
where the notion of the “eternal recurrence of the same” is alluded to. Explain the thought
experiment that Nietzsche describes. Can you forge a connection between the “eternal
recurrence” and Plato’s conception that we are born with knowledge of timeless unchanging
truths? Is the “eternal recurrence” put forth potentially as such a timeless, unchanging
truth? If eternal recurrence may be understood as a timeless truth, then how is Nietzsche
able to avoid the accusation that he simply posits another absolute (which would be
tantamount to resurrecting of God)?
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