Document Type
Article
Keywords
Nietzsche, Schrödinger, What is Life?, eternal recurrence, consciousness, identity, Vedic Philosophy, Schopenhauer
Disciplines
Biophysics | Continental Philosophy | History of Philosophy | History of Religions of Eastern Origins | Philosophy | Philosophy of Science | Quantum Physics
Abstract
Schrödinger and Nietzsche on Life: The Eternal Recurrence of the Same
This essay explores Schrödinger’s reflections on measurement, consciousness, and personal identity. Schrödinger’s, What Is Life? is read together with Nietzsche’s own reflections on the same question, in his aphorism What is Life? together with Nietzsche’s teaching of the eternal return of the selfsame. Schrödinger’s own thinking is influenced as is Nietzsche’s by Schopenhauer but Schrödinger also has the Vedic tradition as this influenced Schopenhauer himself in view.
Article Number
1006
Publication Date
Fall 9-23-2011
Recommended Citation
Babich, Babette, "Schrödinger and Nietzsche on Life: The Eternal Recurrence of the Same" (2011). Working Papers. 7.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/phil_papers/7
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Biophysics Commons, Continental Philosophy Commons, History of Philosophy Commons, History of Religions of Eastern Origins Commons, Philosophy of Science Commons, Quantum Physics Commons
Comments
Forthcoming as
“On Schrödinger and Nietzsche: Eternal Return and the Moment.” In: Christopher Key Chapple, ed., Festschrift for Antonio de Nicolas
and originally presented as
„On Schrödinger’s “Deus Factus Sum” and on Nietzsche’s “What is Life,” Red Star Line, Antwerp-Fordham; Fordham University, September 23, 2011.
and
as a video-lecture on 10 November 2011
URL for Video version, recorded Nov. 10, 2011 http://digital.library.fordham.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/VIDEO/id/211