Thinking about friendship : historical and contemporary philosophical perspectives / edited by Damian Caluori.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caluori, Damian, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Friendship.

Physical Description:

xii, 270 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

It is hard to imagine a good life without friendship. But what precisely makes friendship so valuable? And what is friendship at all? What unites friends and distinguishes them from others? Is the preference we give to friends rationally and morally justifiable? This collection of new essays on the philosophy of friendship considers such questions. In particular, it examines and offers new interpretations of the answers given by famous classic philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Kant and provides fresh answers by leading contemporary philosophers. It is systematically organized around five topics: the nature of friendship, the unity of friendship, friendship and reason, friendship and morality, and the place of friendship in a good life. In this way it discusses the main problems of the philosophy of friendship from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Nature of Friendship

1 Aristotle's Notion of Friendship / Spyros Benetatos Benetatos, Spyros 11

2 The Character of Friendship / Laurence Thomas Thomas, Laurence 30

Part II The Unity of Friendship

3 Friendship in Kallipolis / Damian Caluori Caluori, Damian 47

4 Montaigne's 'Perfect' Friendship / Ullrich Longer Longer, Ullrich 65

Part III Friendship and Reason

5 Relationships and Emotions / Michael Slote Slote, Michael 85

6 Friendships: Epistemically Dangerous Liaisons? / Curtis Brown Brown, Curtis 99

7 How to Be a Non-Reductionist about Reasons of Friendship / Jeffrey Seidman Seidman, Jeffrey 118

Part IV Friendship and Morality

8 Friendship in Kant's Moral Thought / Oliver Sensen Sensen, Oliver 143

9 Consequentialism and Friendship / Alastair Norcross Norcross, Alastair 161

10 Can a Christian Be a Friend? God, Friendship and Love of Neighbor / John Lippitt Lippitt, John 180

Part V Friendship in a Good Life

11 The Goods of Friendship / Thomas Hurka Hurka, Thomas 201

12 Friendship and Friends in the Stoic Theory of the Good Life / Anthony A. Long Long, Anthony A. 218

13 Aesthetics and the Art of Friendship / Sheila Lintott Lintott, Sheila 240.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137003980

1137003987

OCLC:

796757124