[NobodysFreak]

I think you should look up the varring forms of love that were embraced among the Greeks. For Nietzsche, "philia" or friendship was what he wrote as the highest for of love. This was opposed to the more Victorian, or rather, self-less form of love that was practiced by the later Christian sects.


As for, introspection related to philosophy, Nietzsche himself is pleading for us to look as his life as a reflection of his work (and vise versa). To quote him( and my thesis);

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It has gradually become clear to me that what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of how the abstrusest metaphysical assertions of a philosopher have been arrived at, it is always well (and wise) to first ask oneself: “What morality do they (or does he) aim at?”…In the philosopher…there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as who he is, that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other

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The quote is from Beyond Good and Evil... the passages are quoted in my text.