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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791695903321

Titolo

Friendship & politics [[electronic resource] ] : essays in political thought / / edited by John von Heyking and Richard Avramenko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008

ISBN

0-268-09550-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HeykingJohn von

AvramenkoRichard

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Friendship - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Platonic philia and political order / James M. Rhodes -- Taking friendship seriously : Aristotle on the place(s) of philia in human life / Stephen Salkever -- Cicero's distinctive voice on friendship : De amicitia and De re publica / Walter Nicgorski -- The luminous path of friendship : Augustine's account of friendship and political order / John von Heyking -- A companionship of caritas : friendship in St. Thomas Aquinas / Jeanne Heffernan Schindler -- Friendship in the civic order : a reformation absence / Thomas Heilke -- Plato and Montaigne : ancient and modern ideas of friendship / Timothy Fuller -- Hobbes on getting by with little help from friends / Travis D. Smith -- Social friendship in the founding era / George Carey -- It is not good for man to be alone : Tocqueville on friendship / Joshua Mitchell -- Zarathustra and his asinine friends : Nietzsche and taste as the groundless ground of friendship / Richard Avramenko -- Friendship, trust, and political order : a critical overview / Jürgen Gebhardt.