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  There are often striking parallels between different areas of philosophy. Let us consider this parallel between Empedocles, the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad and Nietzsche’s tertium datur. γίγνεται ἄλλoτε ἄλλα καὶ ἠνεκὲς αἰὲν ὁμoῖα. (Empedocles, fr. 17, 35) At one time one thing, at another another, and continuously (ἠνεκὲς) always the same. This is how Giorgio Colli comments on this passage from Empedocles in his book Empedocles : “[...] this verse already contains in its entirety Nietzsche’s cosmic doctrine of the ‘eternal return’. Each individual thing will eternally return, identical to itself (note the emphatic expression ‘continuously always’ ) because the cycle of life, which in its unfolding causes their death, eternally returns upon itself and eternally reconstitutes them in their identical individuality.” In Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 2.1.1 , something similar to the theory of the eternal return anticipated by Empedocles is affirmed: tathākṣarād vividhāḥ [...] bhāvāḥ prajāyante tatra caivāpi...

  Poetry transcends prose. Prose offers examples, develops ideas, explains. Poetry delves into the depths of the moment, captures the light, captures the instant, captures the connection. Camminavi leggera e venivi La strada davanti a te aprivi Eri un mistero e di poesia vestivi. (You walked lightly and came You opened the road before you You were a mystery, clothed in poetry) Poetry prepares the space in which Excess comes to pass in the word. As the Book of Job (which is poetry) bears witness, the central idea of poetry, in its confrontation with Excess (God), is the human being. That of philosophy is structure, it is the system expressed in prose. Poetry prepares the ground for the coming of Divine Excess (God, who inspires our lives), who watches us attentively in our endless struggle against evil. Poetry reveals to us the profound and painful drama of human nature, which Dostoevsky expressed through the words of Dmitri Karamazov: “God and the devil are fighting in the human he...

  Poetry can be experienced as ground. But what kind of ground? The ground for our finding ourselves at that point where we are confronted with Excess, which gives poetry its meaning. ----------------- Telegram: De Unamuno Whatsapp: De Unamuno Facebook: De Unamuno Academia:   https://independent.academia.edu/fulivieri 

  Why Do We Live in the Excess? Empedocles gives us the answer. αἶψα δὲ θνητ᾿ ἐφύοντο, τὰ πρὶν μάθον ἀθάνατ᾿ εἶναι (fr. 35) “Immediately, those mortal beings—who had previously learnt themselves to be immortal—came into being.” That which has ‘learnt’ to be immortal will never be able to forget it, by the very nature of its being. Where there is Immortality (God, our Excess, the very nature of beings) man is inspected by that Immortality; it inspects man more than man inspects Immortality. He does not scrutinise Immortality; Immortality scrutinises him. ------------ Telegram: De Unamuno Whatsapp: De Unamuno Academia:   https://independent.academia.edu/fulivieri