Friendship & politics : essays in political thought / edited by John von Heyking and Richard Avramenko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heyking, John von.

Avramenko, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Friendship--Political aspects.

Friendship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Friendship and politics

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume assembles essays by well-known scholars who address contemporary concerns about community in the context of philosophical ideas about friendship.

Contents:

Platonic philia and political order / James M. Rhodes

Taking friendship seriously : Aristotle on the place(s) of philia in human life / Stephen Salkever

Cicero's distinctive voice on friendship : De amicitia and De re publica / Walter Nicgorski

The luminous path of friendship : Augustine's account of friendship and political order / John von Heyking

A companionship of caritas : friendship in St. Thomas Aquinas / Jeanne Heffernan Schindler

Friendship in the civic order : a reformation absence / Thomas Heilke

Plato and Montaigne : ancient and modern ideas of friendship / Timothy Fuller

Hobbes on getting by with little help from friends / Travis D. Smith

Social friendship in the founding era / George Carey

It is not good for man to be alone : Tocqueville on friendship / Joshua Mitchell

Zarathustra and his asinine friends : Nietzsche and taste as the groundless ground of friendship / Richard Avramenko

Friendship, trust, and political order : a critical overview / Jurgen Gebhardt.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268095505

0268095507

OCLC:

648592594