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Ancient and medieval concepts of friendship / edited by Suzanne Stern-Gillet and Gary M. Gurtler, S.J.

Contributor(s): Stern-Gillet, Suzanne, 1943- [editor.] | Gurtler, Gary M, 1947- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy: Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xvi, 327 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781438453651; 1438453655Subject(s): Friendship | Philosophy, Ancient | Philosophy, MedievalDDC classification: 177/.6209 LOC classification: B187.F75 | A53 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Plato and Aristotle -- Philia in Plato / Dimitri El Murr -- Aristotle on Friendship: Insight from the Four Causes / Gary M. Gurtler -- Souls Great and Small: Aristotle on Self-Knowledge, Friendship, and Civic Engagement / Suzanne Stern-Gillet -- Hellenistic philosophers -- Making Friends: The Stoic Conception of Love and Its Platonic Background / Bernard Collette-Dučić -- Eros and Philia in Epicurean Philosophy / Harry Lesser -- Cicero's Stoic Friend as Resolution to the Paradoxes of Platonic Love: The Amicitia alongside the Symposium / Robin Weiss -- Patristic and medieval philosophers -- Friendship in Late Antiquity: The Case of Gregory Nazianzen and Basil the Great / John Panteleimon Manoussakis -- Adiutrix Virtutum?: Augustine on Friendship and Virtue / Tamer Nawar -- Aelred of Rievaulx on Friendship / John R. Sommerfeldt -- Thomas Aquinas: Charity as Friendship / Fergus Kerr -- Enlightenment thinkers -- Aristotle and Kant on Self-Disclosure in Friendship / Andrea Veltman -- The Platonic Roots of Hölderlin's Concept of Friendship in Hyperion / Sandra Dučić-Collette.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Plato and Aristotle -- Philia in Plato / Dimitri El Murr -- Aristotle on Friendship: Insight from the Four Causes / Gary M. Gurtler -- Souls Great and Small: Aristotle on Self-Knowledge, Friendship, and Civic Engagement / Suzanne Stern-Gillet -- Part 2: Hellenistic philosophers -- Making Friends: The Stoic Conception of Love and Its Platonic Background / Bernard Collette-Dučić -- Eros and Philia in Epicurean Philosophy / Harry Lesser -- Cicero's Stoic Friend as Resolution to the Paradoxes of Platonic Love: The Amicitia alongside the Symposium / Robin Weiss -- Part 3: Patristic and medieval philosophers -- Friendship in Late Antiquity: The Case of Gregory Nazianzen and Basil the Great / John Panteleimon Manoussakis -- Adiutrix Virtutum?: Augustine on Friendship and Virtue / Tamer Nawar -- Aelred of Rievaulx on Friendship / John R. Sommerfeldt -- Thomas Aquinas: Charity as Friendship / Fergus Kerr -- Part 4: Enlightenment thinkers -- Aristotle and Kant on Self-Disclosure in Friendship / Andrea Veltman -- The Platonic Roots of Hölderlin's Concept of Friendship in Hyperion / Sandra Dučić-Collette.

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