Read: Read – Fredrich Nietzsche – Gay Science.docx
Read: Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot (link:http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/earth/pale-blue-dot.html)
Watch: When Nietzsche Wept: Eternal Return (link :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sXGzFuoF8g&index=14&t=1s&list=PLY6YyivqBE9zgc-OvjQTf4AlS5Ra4dyBp)
and Carl Sagan – You Are Here (Pale Blue Dot) [Sagan Time] (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PN5JJDh78I)

Read the Selections from the Gay Science, particularly Aph 341 the greatest weight, – Fredrich Nietzsche

Submit a one page reflection paper on The Eternal Recurrence addressing the following. If you were certain Nietzsche’s demon, below, were telling you the truth. How would you change your life? Why?

“This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!”