Aquinas on friendship / Daniel Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Daniel, 1972- author.

Series:

Oxford philosophical monographs.

Oxford philosophical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Friendship--Philosophy.

Friendship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 189 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Daniel Schwartz examines the views on friendship of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas friendship is the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Schwartz argues that Aquinas fundamentally revises some of the main features of Aristotle's paradigmatic account of friendship so as to accommodate the case of friendship between radically unequal beings: man and God. As a result, Aquinas presents a broader view of friendship thanAristotle's, allowing for a higher extent of disagreement. lack of mutual understanding, and inequality between friends.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations and Conventions; 1. Larger Themes; 2. What Concord Requires; 3. Friendship and Conformity of Wills; 4. What Prevents Us from Joining Other People's Projects?: Pride as an Impediment to Conformity of Wills; 5. Friendship and Uncertainty: Presumptions and Hope; 6. Friendship and Recourse to Justice; 7. Justice, Satisfaction, and Restoration of Friendship; 8. Concluding Remarks; Appendix: The Duality of the Rational Volition in Christ's Human Nature and Friendship with God; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index of Subjects; Index of Names and Places

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-174) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-160713-4

0-19-964529-9

1-281-14883-0

9786611148836

0-19-152555-3

1-4356-2120-4

OCLC:

712015960