| Description |
ix, 288 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Oliver Leaman -- 1. Friendship in Plato's Lysis / Brian Carr -- 2. Honour, shame, humiliation and modern Japan / Peter Edwards -- 3. Teaching for a fee: pedagogy and friendship in Socrates and Maimonides / Daniel H. Frank -- 4. Friendship in Aristotle, Miskawayh and al-Ghazali / Lenn E. Goodman -- 5. Friendship, Equality and Universal Harmony: The universal and the particular in Aelred of Rievaulx's De Spiritali Amicitia / Julian Haseldine -- 6. Friendship in Confucian China: Classical and late Ming / Whalen Lai -- 7. Secular Friendship and Religious Devotion / Oliver Leaman -- 8. Friendship in Indian Philosophy / Indira Mahalingam -- 9. St Thomas Aquinas and the Christian Understanding of Friendship / Patrick Quinn |
| Summary |
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 result from these various examinations |
| Analysis |
Friendship |
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Friendship - Religious aspects |
| Notes |
English |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
East and West.
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Friendship -- Philosophy.
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Friendship.
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| Author |
Leaman, Oliver, 1950-
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| LC no. |
96134028 |
| ISBN |
0700703586 |
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