Friendship East and West : philosophical perspectives
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Friendship East and West : philosophical perspectives
Curzon, 1996
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
There has been renewed interest in the concept of friendship in contemporary philosophy. Many of the existing treatments of the topic have been limited to Western notions of friendship, yet there is a far wider perspective available to us through an examination of a more extended cultural examination of the topic. Cultures other than those in Christian Europe have had important and interesting observations to make on the nature of friendship, and in this collection there is treatment not only of Greek and Christian ideas of friendship, but also of Islamic, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese and Indian perspectives. A rich and extended view of the concept of friendship results from these various examinations.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Oliver Leaman
- Chapter 1 Friendship in Plato's Lysis, Brian Carr
- Chapter 2 Honour, Shame, Humiliation and modern Japan, Peter Edwards
- Chapter 3 Teaching for a Fee, Daniel H. Frank
- Chapter 4 Friendship in Aristotle, Miskawayh and al-Ghaz?l?*My thanks to Ben-Ami Scharfstein and the other philosophers who took Part in the Jiminy Peak meeting of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy for their helpful comments on this paper, and to Oliver Leaman for organizing the panel in which it was presented, as well as undertaking the publication of the present volume., Lenn E. Goodman
- Chapter 5 Friendship, Equality and Universal Harmony, Julian Haseldine
- Chapter 6 Friendship in Confucian China, Whalen Lai
- Chapter 7 Secular Friendship and Religious Devotion, Oliver Learnan
- Chapter 8 Friendship in Indian Philosophy, Indira Mahalingam
- Chapter 9 St. Thomas Aquinas and the Christian Understanding of Friendship, Patrick Quinn
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