El eterno retorno es una concepción filosófica del tiempo postulada en forma escrita, por primera vez en occidente, por el estoicismo y que planteaba una repetición del mundo en donde éste se extinguía para volver a crearse. Bajo esta concepción, el mundo era vuelto a su origen por medio de la conflagración, donde todo ardía en fuego. Una vez quemado, se reconstruía para que los mismos actos ocurrieran una vez más en él.

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Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept that the universe and all existence and energy has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space.The concept is found in Indian philosophy and in ancient Egypt and was subsequently taken up by the Pythagoreans and Stoics. With the decline of antiquity and the spread of Christianity, the concept fell into disuse in the Western world, with the exception of Friedrich Nietzsche, who connected the thought to many of his other concepts, including amor fati. In addition, the philosophical concept of eternal recurrence was addressed by Arthur Schopenhauer. It is a purely physical concept, involving no supernatural reincarnation, but the return of beings in the same bodies. Time is viewed as being not linear but cyclical.

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