Concept
Amor fati
Overview
Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as 'love of fate' or 'love of one's fate'. It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as necessary.
Amor fati is often associated with what Friedrich Nietzsche called "eternal recurrence", the idea that everything recurs infinitely over an infinite period of time. From this he developed a desire to be willing to live exactly the same life over and over for all eternity ("...long for nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal").
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Our pleasure in ourselves seeks to maintain itself, by always transforming something new _into ourselves_,—that is just possessing. To become satiated with a possession, that is to become satiated with ourselves. (One can also suffer from excess,—even the desire to cast away, to share out, can assume the honourable name of "love.")
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom
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For as when a thing is understood by anyone, there results in the one who understands a conception of the object understood, which conception we call word; so when anyone loves an object, a certain impression results, so to speak, of the thing loved in the affection of the lover; by reason of which the object loved is said to be in the lover; as also the thing understood is in the one who understands; so that when…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
States what Amor fati is.
Hence we clearly understand that our salvation, or blessedness, or liberty consists in a constant and eternal love towards God, or in the love of God towards men. This love or blessedness is called Glory in the sacred writings, and not without reason. For whether it be related to God or to the mind, it may properly be called repose of mind, which is, in truth, not distinguished from glory.
Benedictus de Spinoza, The Philosophy of Spinoza
States what Amor fati is.
Philosophers who discussed Amor fati
Related ideas
- Epictetus
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Meditations
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Marcus Aurelius
- Suffering
- The Gay Science
- Absurdism
- Grief
- Aphorism
- The Myth of Sisyphus
- Destiny
- Sisyphus
- The Antichrist (book)
- Albert Camus
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophical pessimism.