Amor fati is a Latin phrase that can be translated as "love of destiny". It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in life, including suffering and loss, as good or at least necessary.
Amor fati is often associated with what Friedrich Nietzsche called eternal return, the idea that, for an infinite period of time, everything is repeated endlessly. From this concept, he developed the desire to be willing to live the exact same life over and over again for all eternity ("... long for nothing more fervently than this ultimate confirmation and eternal seal").
For Nietzsche, on the one hand, amor fati is about the acceptance of what is natural and inevitable, as something necessary from which we nurture ourselves and in whose environment we evolve. Amor fati: love of what we have to do in destiny or luck. On the other hand, it is about the concept of time. Nietzsche refers to the ancient Greek way of life (in his book "The Origin of Tragedy") and shows that it was considered a priority to live the present with dedication. Time is often seen as a straight line through which man travels; However, Nietzsche considers time as circular, a concept that he describes with the term eternal return and that is similar to the Buddhist concept of time as an upward spiral. The superman (Übermensch) is the only one capable of leaving the closed circle of eternal return, in which the concept of evolution would have no place. .
