Author: PRICE, A. W.
Title: Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle
Description: Clarendon Press, 1989. Hardcover. ISBN: 0198249640. Minor Shelfwear. Dustjacket has small abrasion along the spine which has rubbed the colour off else NF; This book explores for the first time an idea common to both Plato and Aristotle: although people are separate, their lives need not be; one person's life may overflow into another's, so that helping someone else is a way of serving oneself. Price considers how this idea unites the philosophers' treatments of love and friendship (which are otherwise very different) , and demonstrates that this view of love and friendship, applied not only to personal relationships, but also to the household and even the city-state, promises to resolve the old dichotomy between egoism and altruism. ; 278 pages. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0198249640 Philosophy Society, Politics & Philosophy Aristotle Philosophers Plato Ethics & Morality Topics Philosophy Books


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