Abstract
In this essay, I argue that the notion of monetary debt does not displace but merely conceals our deeper, ontological debt to the sources of our being and way of life. I suggest that first Christianity and then modern science attempted to find a means of redemption that could free us from debt, but that both were unable to reconcile the ideas of freedom and indebtedness. I then examine the way in which Friedrich Nietzsche tried to resolve the apparent contradiction of our debt to the past and our freedom to shape the future by developing a new form of redemption rooted in his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 267-287 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Journal of Religious Ethics |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Anaximander
- Christianity
- Plato
- modernity
- morality
- science
- spirit of revenge
- tradition
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