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Love and friendship in Plato and Aristotle / A.W. Price.
LIBRA BD436 .P75 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, A. W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plato.
- Aristotle.
- Love--History.
- Love.
- History.
- Friendship--History.
- Friendship.
- Local Subjects:
- Aristotle.
- Plato.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 264 pages ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- 2004.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- This book explores for the first time an idea common to both Plato and Aristotle: although people are separate, their lives need not be; one person's life may overflow into another's, so that helping someone else is a way of serving oneself. Price considers how this idea unites the philosophers' treatments of love and friendship (which are otherwise very different), and demonstrates that this view of love and friendship, applied not only to personal relationships, but also to the household and even the city-state, promises to resolve the old dichotomy between egoism and altruism.
- Contents:
- Friendship and desire in the lysis
- Love in the symposium
- Love in the phaedrus
- Perfect friendship in aristotle
- Aristotle on the varieties of friendship
- Household
- City.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-257) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Price, A.W. Love and friendship in Plato and Aristotle.
- ISBN:
- 0198249640
- 9780198249641
- 0585156980
- 9780585156989
- 0198248997
- 9780198248996
- OCLC:
- 18350251
- Online:
- Publisher description
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