Aquinas on Friendship

ISBN-13: 9780199645299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str.

Daniel Schwartz

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Schwartz's eight concise chapters are among the most refreshing and original studies of Aquinas in recent years

O autorze

David Schwartz is Lecturer in Politics in the School of Languages & Social Sciences at Aston University.