Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle - Brossura

Price, A. W.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198248997 ISBN 13: 9780198248996

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 1990

Riassunto

Reissued in 1997 with corrections and a new Afterword, this book fully explores for the first time an idea common to Plato and Aristotle, which unites their treatments - otherwise very different - of love and friendship. The idea is that although persons are separate, their lives need not be. One person's life may overflow into another's, and as such, helping another person is a way of serving oneself. The author shows how their view of love and friendship, within not only personal relationships, but also the household and even the city-state, promises to resolve the old dichotomy between egoism and altruism.

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Recensione:

There has been ... no book at all on the whole range of issues concerning love and friendship in both Plato and Aristotle ... A. W. Price's new book fills this gap, with eloquence and penetration ... the book [is] a valuable study of its topics as well as its texts. (Martha Nussbaum, Times Literary Supplement)

Contenuti:

Friendship and desire in the Lysis; Love in the Symposium; Love in the Phaedrus; Perfect friendship in Aristotle; Aristotle on the varieties of friendship; The household; The City; Epilogue; Appendices; Homogeneity and beauty in the Symposium; Psychoanalysis looks at the Phaedrus ; Plato's sexual morality; Aristotle on erotic love; List of modern works cited.

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• Editore: Clarendon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0198248997
• ISBN 13: 9780198248996
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304