Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle by A W Price

Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle by A W Price

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.

There has been.. no book at all on the whole range of issues concerning love and friendship in both Plato and Aristotle ... A. W. Price's new book fills this gap, with eloquence and penetration ... the book [is] a valuable study of its topics as well as its texts. * Martha Nussbaum, Times Literary Supplement *

A. W. Price was educated at Winchester and Oxford, and has taught chiefly at York and in London. He has maintained an interest both in current ethical theory, and in the moral psychology of Greek philosophers, especially Plato and Aristotle. This is his fourth book.

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ISBN 13	9780198248996
ISBN 10	0198248997
Title	Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle
Author	A W Price
Series	Clarendon Paperbacks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1990-09-13
Number of pages	286
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