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UNINA9910464054903321 |
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Titolo |
Friendship East and West : philosohical perspectives / / edited by Oliver Leaman |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-78525-6 |
1-315-02640-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (299 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Friendship |
East and West |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published in 1996 by Curzon Press. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Friendship in Plato's Lysis; 2 Honour, shame, humiliation and modern Japan; 3 Teaching for a fee: pedagogy and friendship in Socrates and Maimonides; 4 Friendship in Aristotle, Miskawayh and al-Ghazali; 5 Friendship, Equality and Universal Harmony: The universal and the particular in Aelred of Rievaulx's De Spiritali Amicitia; 6 Friendship in Confucian China: Classical and late Ming; 7 Secular Friendship and Religious Devotion; 8 Friendship in Indian Philosophy |
9 St. Thomas Aquinas and the Christian Understanding of FriendshipIndex |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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