Aristotle And The Ethics Of Difference Friendship And Equality

Author : Zoli Filotas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 135016089X

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Aristotle and the Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equality by Zoli Filotas Pdf

"Connecting several strands of Aristotle's thought, Zoli Filotas sheds light on one of the axioms of Aristotle's ethics and political philosophy - that every community has a ruler - and demonstrates its relevance to his ideas on personal relationships. Aristotle and the Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equality reveals a pluralistic theory of rule in Aristotle's thought, tracing it through his corpus and situating it in a discussion among such figures as Gorgias, Xenophon, and Plato. Considering the similarities and differences among various forms of rule, Filotas shows that for Aristotle even virtuous friends must exercise a version of rule akin to that of slaveholders. He also explores why Aristotle distinguishes the hierarchical rule over women from both the mastery of slaves and the political rule exercised by free and equal citizens. In doing so, he argues that natural and social differences among human beings play a complex, and troubling, role in Aristotle's reasoning. Illuminating and thought-provoking, this book reveals Aristotle's ambivalence about political relations and the equal treatment they involve and offers an engaging inquiry into how he understood the common structures of human relationships"--

Author : Zoli Filotas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350160873

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Aristotle and the Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equality by Zoli Filotas Pdf

Connecting several strands of Aristotle's thought, Zoli Filotas sheds light on one of the axioms of Aristotle's ethics and political philosophy – that every community has a ruler – and demonstrates its relevance to his ideas on personal relationships. Aristotle and the Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equality reveals a pluralistic theory of rule in Aristotle's thought, tracing it through his corpus and situating it in a discussion among such figures as Gorgias, Xenophon, and Plato. Considering the similarities and differences among various forms of rule, Filotas shows that for Aristotle even virtuous friends must exercise a version of rule akin to that of slaveholders. He also explores why Aristotle distinguishes the hierarchical rule over women from both the mastery of slaves and the political rule exercised by free and equal citizens. In doing so, he argues that natural and social differences among human beings play a complex, and troubling, role in Aristotle's reasoning. Illuminating and thought-provoking, this book reveals Aristotle's ambivalence about political relations and the equal treatment they involve and offers an engaging inquiry into how he understood the common structures of human relationships.

Author : Paul W. Ludwig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107022966

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Rediscovering Political Friendship by Paul W. Ludwig Pdf

Applies Aristotle's argument - that citizenship is like friendship - to the liberal and democratic societies of the present day.

Author : Geoffrey Percival
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107497719

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Aristotle on Friendship by Geoffrey Percival Pdf

Originally published in 1940, this book contains an expanded English translation of Books 8 and 9 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. These two books are devoted to a discussion on the nature of friendship and the role it played in Greek life, and Percival supplies an introduction with a background to the subject of ancient friendship prior to Aristotle's formulation. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient friendship or the philosophy of Aristotle.

Author : Lorraine Smith Pangle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139441865

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Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship by Lorraine Smith Pangle Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive account of the major philosophical works on friendship and its relationship to self-love. The book gives central place to Aristotle's searching examination of friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics. Lorraine Pangle argues that the difficulties surrounding this discussion are soon dispelled once one understands the purpose of the Ethics as both a source of practical guidance for life and a profound, theoretical investigation into human nature. The book also provides fresh interpretations of works on friendship by Plato, Cicero, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne and Bacon. The author shows how each of these thinkers sheds light on central questions of moral philosophy: is human sociability rooted in neediness or strength? is the best life chiefly solitary, or dedicated to a community with others? Clearly structured and engagingly written, this book will appeal to a broad swathe of readers across philosophy, classics and political science.

Author : James O. Grunebaum
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791486870

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Friendship by James O. Grunebaum Pdf

In Friendship, James O. Grunebaum introduces a new conceptual framework to articulate, explain, and understand similarities and differences between various conceptions of friendship. Asking whether special preference for friends is morally justified, Grunebaum answers that question by analyzing a comprehensive comparison of not only Aristotle's three well-known kinds of friendship—pleasure, utility, and virtue—but also a variety of lesser-known friendship conceptions from Kant, C. S. Lewis, and Montaigne. The book clarifies differences about how friends ought to behave toward each other and how these differences are, in part, what separate the various conceptions of friendship.

Author : A. W. Price
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780191586613

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Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle by A. W. Price Pdf

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. - ;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; Epilogue; Appendices; Homogeneity and beauty in the Symposium; Psychoanalysis looks at the Phaedrus ; Plato's sexual morality; Aristotle on erotic love; List of modern works cited. -

Author : Ann Ward
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438462684

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Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics by Ann Ward Pdf

Examines how Aristotle posits political philosophy and the experience of friendship as a means to bind strictly intellectural virtue with morality. In this book, Ann Ward explores Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on the progressive structure of the argument. Aristotle begins by giving an account of moral virtue from the perspective of the moral agent, only to find that the account itself highlights fundamental tensions within the virtues that push the moral agent into the realm of intellectual virtue. However, the existence of an intellectual realm separate from the moral realm can lead to lack of self-restraint. Aristotle, Ward argues, locates political philosophy and the experience of friendship as possible solutions to the problem of lack of self-restraint, since political philosophy thinks about the human things in a universal way, and friendship grounds the pursuit of the good which is happiness understood as contemplation. Ward concludes that Aristotle’s philosophy of friendship points to the embodied intellect of timocratic friends and mothers in their activity of mothering as engaging in the highest form of contemplation and thus living the happiest life. Ann Ward is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Politics and International Studies at Campion College at the University of Regina, Canada. She is the author and editor of several books, including Herodotus and the Philosophy of Empire and Socrates and Dionysus: Philosophy and Art in Dialogue.

Author : Howard J. Curzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191629150

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Aristotle and the Virtues by Howard J. Curzer Pdf

Aristotle is the father of virtue ethics—a discipline which is receiving renewed scholarly attention. Yet Aristotle's accounts of the individual virtues remain opaque, for most contemporary commentators of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics have focused upon other matters. In contrast, Howard J. Curzer takes Aristotle's detailed description of the individual virtues to be central to his ethical theory. Working through the Nicomachean Ethics virtue-by-virtue, explaining and generally defending Aristotle's claims, this book brings each of Aristotle's virtues alive. A new Aristotle emerges, an Aristotle fascinated by the details of the individual virtues. Justice and friendship hold special places in Aristotle's virtue theory. Many contemporary discussions place justice and friendship at opposite, perhaps even conflicting, poles of a spectrum. Justice seems to be very much a public, impartial, and dispassionate thing, while friendship is paradigmatically private, partial, and passionate. Yet Curzer argues that in Aristotle's view they are actually symbiotic. Justice is defined in terms of friendship, and good friendship is defined in terms of justice. Curzer goes on to reveal how virtue ethics is not only about being good; it is also about becoming good. Aristotle and the Virtues reconstructs Aristotle's account of moral development. Certain character types serve as stages of moral development. Certain catalysts and mechanisms lead from one stage to the next. Explaining why some people cannot make moral progress specifies the preconditions of moral development. Finally, Curzer describes Aristotle's quest to determine the ultimate goal of moral development, happiness.

Author : Ivy Schweitzer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807830697

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Perfecting Friendship by Ivy Schweitzer Pdf

Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. As Ivy Schweitzer explains, however, this perception leads to a misunderstanding of American history. In an exploration

Author : Sandra Lynch
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 9781474470360

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Philosophy and Friendship by Sandra Lynch Pdf

A philosophical exploration of the meaning and significance of friendship.This book explains the persistence of friendship today in the light of the history of philosophical approaches to the subject. It considers ideals of intimacy and fusion in the context of claims that such ideals are unrealistic and even dangerous. Cicero's scepticism about friendship in the public realm is compared with the Aristotelian view of friendship as a genuine political bond, and with Derrida's development of that view via an exploration of Aristotle's alleged and provocative announcement 'O my friends, there is no friend'. Tensions between love and respect, identity and difference, a focus on the self and a focus on the other are closely examined.From Aristotle to contemporary theorists, the book explores the conditions that enable the development of self-understanding in friendship, the delicate and unstable pairing of concepts like inclination and duty and distinctions between self-love, self esteem and self-concern in relations between friends.Key Features* Recognition of the variety of the term 'friend' in the history of philosophy* The treatment of the tension between identity and difference in relations between friends* Discussion of the contribution of friendship to self-understanding.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017971554

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An Analysis of Aristotle's Ethics. [By R. B. Paul.] by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Robert Bateman Paul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600089982

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An analysis of Aristotle's Ethics, with questions by Robert Bateman Paul Pdf

Author : David L. Schindler
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802862471

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Love Alone Is Credible by David L. Schindler Pdf

In this volume David L. Schindler presents readers with a collection of essays garnered from the 2005 conference marking the centenary of Hans Urs von Balthasar s birth. That conference hosted an international gathering of scholars, among them students, colleagues, friends, and critics of Balthasar, all making an effort to engage the fundamental questions of faith and reason in light of his influential contribution to Catholic theology. A wide range of topics is explored in light of the Christian mystery, including metaphysics and causality, the nature of rationality, the relationship between God and the world, and the meaning of the body. Featuring an impressive list of contributors, Love Alone Is Credible is a tribute to the profound relevance of Balthasar s thought.

Author : Ann Ward
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438462677

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Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics by Ann Ward Pdf

Examines how Aristotle posits political philosophy and the experience of friendship as a means to bind strictly intellectual virtue with morality. In this book, Ann Ward explores Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on the progressive structure of the argument. Aristotle begins by giving an account of moral virtue from the perspective of the moral agent, only to find that the account itself highlights fundamental tensions within the virtues that push the moral agent into the realm of intellectual virtue. However, the existence of an intellectual realm separate from the moral realm can lead to lack of self-restraint. Aristotle, Ward argues, locates political philosophy and the experience of friendship as possible solutions to the problem of lack of self-restraint, since political philosophy thinks about the human things in a universal way, and friendship grounds the pursuit of the good which is happiness understood as contemplation. Ward concludes that Aristotle’s philosophy of friendship points to the embodied intellect of timocratic friends and mothers in their activity of mothering as engaging in the highest form of contemplation and thus living the happiest life.