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Aquinas on Friendship (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780199205394, 0199205396
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2300017 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
216\0
Time added
2023-11-01 04:37:41

Description

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 than Aristotle's, allowing for a higher extent of disagreement. lack of mutual understanding, and inequality between friends.

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