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Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle reprint Edition
Author(s): A. W. Price (Author)
- Publisher: Clarendon Press
- Publication Date: 13 Sept. 1990
- Edition: reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 0198248997
- ISBN-13: 9780198248996
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
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"A meticulous and enlightening examination....Price's acquaintance with his texts is exceptional, and every page exemplifies it."--Times Higher Education Supplement
Review
"A meticulous and enlightening examination....Price's acquaintance with his texts is exceptional, and every page exemplifies it."--Times Higher Education Supplement
