Aquinas on Friendship

Aquinas on Friendship by Daniel Schwartz

Daniel Schwartz examines the views on friendship of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas friendship is the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Schwartz argues that Aquinas fundamentally revises some of the main features of Aristotle's paradigmatic account of friendship so as to accommodate the case of friendship between radically unequal beings: man and God. As a result, Aquinas presents a broader view of friendship than Aristotle's, allowing for a higher extent of disagreement. lack of mutual understanding, and inequality between friends.

Review from previous edition a most impressive and unquestionably significant contribution not only to the recent philosophical and theological literature on friendship, but also to scholarship on Aquinas* Modern Theology *
a penetrating study * Times Literary Supplement *
Schwartz's eight concise chapters are among the most refreshing and original studies of Aquinas in recent years * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

David Schwartz is Lecturer in Politics in the School of Languages & Social Sciences at Aston University.

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Title	Aquinas on Friendship
Author	Daniel Schwartz
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2012-02-02
Number of pages	208
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