Other Selves: Philosophers on FriendshipMichael Pakaluk "Friendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due. Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers on the subject and collected them into a handsome and handy volume. . . . A splendid book!" --M. M. Wartofsky, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, City University of New York |
Contents
Aristotle | 28 |
Nicomachean Ethics Books VIII and IX 335? B C 280 | 70 |
Seneca | 117 |
Thomas Aquinas | 146 |
Montaigne | 185 |
Francis Bacon | 200 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 218 |
Søren Kierkegaard | 233 |
Elizabeth Telfer | 248 |
Bibliography | 268 |
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according actions Aelred affection Altruism appetite Aristotle Aristotle's become beloved benefit Bernard of Clairvaux C. S. Lewis called cause of love character charity choiceworthy Christianity Cicero common contrary Ctesippus deontology desire dilection duties to friends effect of love enemy equal erotic love essay Ethics everything father feel fortune friendly give goodwill happiness hate heart Hence honor human irrational creatures kind Laelius live lovable love and friendship love of concupiscence love of friendship lover Lysis Menexenus Montaigne moral mutual indwelling nature never Nicomachean Ethics object one's neighbour ourselves pain passion person Philosopher Plato pleasant pleasure poet reason regard relation relationship Reply Obj sake Scaevola Scipio seek seems self-love sense share ship simply Socrates someone sort soul speak Spiritual Friendship SUMMA THEOLOGIAE sure Terence Irwin things thought Tiberius Gracchus timocracy tion true friendship types of friendship union viii virtue virtuous wisdom wise wish