Love and friendship in Plato and Aristotle
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Love and friendship in Plato and Aristotle
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989
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Includes index
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Though persons are separate, their lives need not be. One person's life may overflow into another's, so that, according to Price, helping the other person is a way of helping oneself. Price suggests that this idea is present in the accounts of love and friendship given by both Plato and Aristotle. He also argues that their views on love and friendship in personal relationships, the household and the city-state can resolve the old dichotomy between altruism and egoism.
Table of Contents
- Friendship and desire in the "Lysis"
- love in the "Symposium"
- love in the "Phaedrus"
- perfect friendship in Aristotle
- Aristotle on the varieties of friendship
- the household
- the city. Appendices: 1 - homogeneity and beauty in the "Symposium"
- 2 - psychoanalysis looks at the "Phaedrus"
- 3 - Plato's sexual morality
- 4 - Aristotle on erotic love.
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