TY - DATA T1 - The Affirmation of Eros: Passion and Eternity in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science PY - 2018/09/03 AU - THOMAS JAMES RYAN UR - https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/The_Affirmation_of_Eros_Passion_and_Eternity_in_Friedrich_Nietzsche_s_The_Gay_Science/7039508 DO - 10.26180/5b8cf855657fb L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/12938252 KW - Nietzsche KW - Hellenistic Philosophy KW - History of Philosophy KW - Love KW - Philosophy N2 - This thesis investigates the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's relationship with three ancient philosophical traditions: Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Platonism. It argues that in his work The Gay Science he radically breaks from these traditions, by developing an ethics grounded in the love of life. The thesis accomplishes a richer understanding of Nietzsche’s middle-period ethics and of his relationship to antiquity ER -