The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780714681184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 201 str.

Preston T. King; Heather Devere

Opis

In antiquity, it was not only Aristotle who assumed the people are more to be understood in relation to one another than as individual or solitary constructs. Friendship was vital to figures wuch as Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, because it supplied the tpe of bonding or fellowship without which they supposed no society could survive - a person ufil for communal life, for Aristotle, must be either a beast or a god.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, Preston King; Chapter 2 The Role of Friendship in Aristotle’s Political Theory, Richard Mulgan; Chapter 3 Hume, Smith and Ferguson: Friendship in Commercial Society, Lisa Hill, Peter McCarthy; Chapter 4 Circles, Ladders and Stars: Nietzsche on Friendship, Ruth Abbey; Chapter 5 Martin Buber and the Ontological Crisis of Modern Man, Charles Rustin; Chapter 6 Derrida and Friendship, Fred Dallmayr; Chapter 7 The Virtue of Solitude and the Vicissitudes of Friendship, HorstHutter; Chapter 8 Reviving Greco-Roman Friendship: A Bibliographical Review, HeatherDevere;

O autorze

Preston King, Heather Devere