Friendship East and West: Philosophical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780700703586 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 300 str.

Oliver Leaman

Opis

There has been renewed interest in the concept of friendship in contemporary philosophy. Many of the existing treatments of the topic have been limited to Western notions of friendship, yet there is a far wider perspective available to us through an examination of a more extended cultural examination of the topic. Cultures other than those in Christian Europe have had important and interesting observations to make on the nature of friendship, and in this collection there is treatment not only of Greek and Christian ideas of friendship, but also of Islamic, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese and Indian perspectives. A rich and extended view of the concept of friendship results from these various examinations.

Spis treści

Introduction, Oliver Leaman; Chapter 1 Friendship in Plato’s Lysis, Brian Carr; Chapter 2 Honour, Shame, Humiliation and modern Japan, Peter Edwards; Chapter 3 Teaching for a Fee, Daniel H. Frank; Chapter 4 Friendship in Aristotle, Miskawayh and al-Ghaz?l?*My thanks to Ben-Ami Scharfstein and the other philosophers who took Part in the Jiminy Peak meeting of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy for their helpful comments on this paper, and to Oliver Leaman for organizing the panel in which it was presented, as well as undertaking the publication of the present volume., Lenn E. Goodman; Chapter 5 Friendship, Equality and Universal Harmony, Julian Haseldine; Chapter 6 Friendship in Confucian China, Whalen Lai; Chapter 7 Secular Friendship and Religious Devotion, Oliver Learnan; Chapter 8 Friendship in Indian Philosophy, Indira Mahalingam; Chapter 9 St. Thomas Aquinas and the Christian Understanding of Friendship, Patrick Quinn;

O autorze

Oliver Leaman