Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography

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Human, All Too Human 177

"Man is free and yet there is no freedom; everything is necessity bound
by the laws of nature" (Gulyga 143).
Nietzsche also dealt with this antinomy of freedom explicidy and
momentously in the context of his doctrine of recurrence, entreating us
to love our destiny—amor fati. Loving necessity means adding something
to it, which alters it When we embrace our fate, it evolves from some-
thing that was merely endured. We can therefore rest assured that the
free spirit, which makes freedom vanish with its "evil laughter," is bound
to conjure it up again in due course.

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