Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle

Reissued in 1997 with corrections and a new Afterword, this book fully explores for the first time an idea common to Plato and Aristotle, which unites their treatments-- otherwise very different--of love and friendship. The idea is that although persons are separate, their lives need not be. One person's life may overflow into another's, and as such, helping another person is a way of serving oneself. The author shows how their view of love and friendship, within not only personal relationships, but also the household and even the city-state, promises to resolve the old dichotomy between egoism and altruism.


Author: A. W. Price
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 12/27/1990
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.54w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780198248996

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