This book offers a comprehensive account of the major philosophical works on friendship and its relationship to self-love. The book gives central place to Aristotle’s searching examination of friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics. Lorraine Pangle argues that the difficulties surrounding this discussion are soondispelled once one understands the purpose of the Ethics as both a source of practical guidance for life and a profound, theoretical investigation into human nature. The book also provides fresh interpretations of works on friendshipby Plato, Cicero, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne and Bacon. The author shows howeach of these thinkers sheds light on central questions of moral philosophy: is human sociability rooted in neediness or strength? is the best life chieflysolitary, or dedicated to a community with others? Clearly structured and engagingly written, this book will appeal to a broad swathe of readers across philosophy, classics and political science. INDICE: Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The challenge of Plato’s Lysis;2. The three kinds of friendship; 3. Aristotle and Montaigne on friendship asthe greatest good; 4. Friendships in politics and the family; 5. Cicero’s Laelius: political friendship at its best; 6. Quarrels, conflicting claims and dissolutions; 7. Friends as other selves; 8. Goodwill, concord, and the love of benefactors; 9. Self-love and noble sacrifice; 10. Friendship in the happy life; Notes; Bibliography of modern works and editions; Index of names.
- ISBN: 978-0-521-05267-2
- Editorial: Cambridge University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 21/02/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés