Heroic-Idyllic Philosophizing: Nietzsche and the Epicurean Tradition

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 74:237-263 (2014)
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This essay looks at Nietzsche in relation to the Epicurean tradition. It focuses on his middle period writings of 1878 texts such as Human, all too Human, Dawn, and The Gay Science heroic-idyllic philosophizing’. At the same time, Nietzsche claims to understand Epicurus differently to everybody else. The essay explores the main figurations of Epicurus we find in his middle period and concludes by taking a critical look at his later and more ambivalent reception of Epicurus.

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Friedrich Nietzsche.Robert Wicks - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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