Ancient and medieval concepts of friendship
By: edited by Suzanne Stern-Gillet and Gary M. Gurtler, S.J.
Series: SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy; SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781438453651; 9781438453644; 9781438453668
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Freundschaft; Ancient Philosophy; Friendship; Philosophie; Medieval Philosophy
Description: Focusing on Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics and Epicureans, and early Christian and Medieval sources, Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship brings together assessments of different philosophical accounts of friendship. This volume sketches the evolution of the concept from ancient ideals of friendship applying strictly to relationships between men of high social position to Christian concepts that treat friendship as applicable to all but are concerned chiefly with the soul's relation to God--and that ascribe a secondary status to human relationships. The book concludes with two essays examining how this complex heritage was received during the Enlightenment, looking in particular to Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Hölderlin.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Plato and Aristotle; title: Philia in Plato / Dimitri El Murr; title: Aristotle on friendship : insight from the four causes / Gary M. Gurtler; title: Souls great and small : Aristotle on self-knowledge, friendship, and civic engagement / Suzanne Stern-Gillet; title: Hellenistic philosophers; title: Making friends : the stoic conception of love and its platonic background / Bernard Collette-Dučić; title: Eros and Philia in Epicurean philosophy / Harry Lesser; title: Cicero's stoic friend as resolution to the paradoxes of platonic love : the Amicitia alongside the symposium / Robin Weiss; title: Patristic and medieval philosophers; title: Friendship in Late Antiquity : the case of Gregory Nazianzen and Basil the Great / John Panteleimon Manoussakis; title: Adiutrix virtutum? : Augustine on friendship and virtue / Tamer Nawar; title: Aelred of Rievaulx on friendship / John R. Sommerfeldt; title: Thomas Aquinas : charity as friendship / Fergus Kerr; title: Enlightenment thinkers; title: Aristotle and Kant on self-disclosure in friendship / Andrea Veltman; title: The platonic roots of Hölderlin's concept of friendship in Hyperion / Sandra Dučić-Collette.