Friendship And The Moral Life

Author : Paul J. Wadell C.P.
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268096793

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Friendship and the Moral Life by Paul J. Wadell C.P. Pdf

Friendship and the Moral Life is not simply a theoretical argument about how moral theology might be done if it took friendship more seriously. Rather, the book exhibits how without friendship, our lives are morally not worth living. The book begins with a consideration of why a new model of the moral life is needed. Wadell then examines the ethics of Aristotle, who viewed the moral life as based on a specific understanding of the purpose of being human, with friendship being an important factor in enabling people to acquire virtues necessary for achieving this purpose. Through the thought of Augustine, Aelred of Reivaulx, and Karl Barth, the question is raised whether friendship is at odds with Christian love or whether their relation depends on one's narrative account of friendship. Thomas Aquinas' understanding of charity as friendship with God is examined to clarify this relationship. By locating friendship within the story of God's redemption through Christ, Wadell helps us see why friendship properly understood is integral to the Christian life and not at odds with it. Such a friendship draws us to love all others who seek God and teaches us not to restrict our concern to a special few in preferential love. The book closes by investigating how friendship as a model for the moral life might work in everyday life.

Author : Paul J. Wadell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781442209725

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Happiness and the Christian Moral Life by Paul J. Wadell Pdf

Happiness and the Christian Moral Life introduces students to Christian Ethics looking at ethics as a path to the "good life" and happiness, rather than a strict set of rules. Revisions and updates include lists of suggested readings and resources, new discussions of how technology shapes relationships, a more fully developed account of Augustine and happiness, and more.

Author : Paul J. Wadell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781442255180

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Happiness and the Christian Moral Life by Paul J. Wadell Pdf

Happiness and the Christian Moral Life introduces students to Christian ethics through the lens of happiness. The book suggests that the heart of ethics is not rules and obligations but our deep desire for happiness and fulfillment. We achieve that happiness when we become people who love the good and seek it in everything we do. The third edition of this reader-friendly text has been revised and updated throughout. It introduces Christian ethics with sensitivity towards readers who may not be Christian themselves. After an overview of basic concepts and key thinkers such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, subsequent chapters explore the importance of narrative in Christian ethics, the place of friendship and community in Christian moral life, the role of virtues in our quest for fulfillment, a Christian understanding of the person, a Christian theology of freedom, and false steps on the path to happiness. Final chapters discuss the role of conscience and prudence, love, and justice. The third edition has been re-structured to better meet teaching needs by moving the discussion of narrative earlier in the book. This edition features fresh, global examples; revised introductions to key thinkers; discussions of tough, contemporary topics such as hook-up culture; careful consideration of the words of Pope Francis on themes ranging from consumerism and freedom to love and the environment; and more.

Author : Lorraine Smith Pangle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Paul J. Wadell
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781587430510

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Becoming Friends by Paul J. Wadell Pdf

The author powerfully reminds readers that our first and foremost friendship, the one that undergirls all others, is with God....--Congregations

Author : Laurence A. Blum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135156213

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Friendship, Altruism and Morality (Routledge Revivals) by Laurence A. Blum Pdf

Friendship, Altruism, and Morality, originally published in 1980, gives an account of "altruistic emotions" (compassion, sympathy, concern) and friendship that brings out their moral value. Blum argues that moral theories centered on rationality, universal principle, obligation, and impersonality cannot capture this moral importance. This was one of the first books in contemporary moral philosophy to emphasize the moral significance of emotions, to deal with friendship as a moral phenomenon, and to challenge the rationalism of standard interpretations of Kant, although Blum’s "sentimentalism" owes more to Schopenhauer than to Hume. It was a forerunner to care ethics, and feminist ethics more generally; to virtue ethics; and to subsequent influential interpretations of Kant that attempted to room for altruistic emotion and friendship, and other forms of particularism and partialism. In addition, the work has been widely influential in religious studies, political theory, bioethics, and feminist ethics.

Author : Neera Kapur Badhwar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 0801480973

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Friendship by Neera Kapur Badhwar Pdf

There has been a marked revival of interest among philosophers in the topic of friendship. This collection of fifteen essays presents an admirable range of the diverse contemporary approaches to friendship within philosophy. The book is divided into three sections. The first centers on the nature of friendship, the difference between friendship and other personal loves, and the importance of friendship in the individual's life. The second section discusses the moral significance of friendship and the response of various ethical theories and theorists (Aristotelian, Christian, Kantian, and consequentialist) to the phenomenon of friendship. The last section deals with the importance of personal and civic friendship in a good society. Badhwar's introduction is a comprehensive critical discussion of the issues raised by the essays: it relates them to each other, as well as to historical and contemporary discussions not included in the anthology, thus providing the reader with an integrated overview of the essays and their place in the larger philosophical picture. Contributors: Robert M. Adams; Julia Annas; Neera Kapur Badhwar; Marcia Baron; Lawrence Blum; Nathaniel Branden; John M. Cooper; Marilyn Friedman; C. S. Lewis; H. J. Paton; Peter Railton; Amelie O. Rorty; Mary Lyndon Shanley; Nancy Sherman; Michael Stocker; Laurence Thomas

Author : Alexander Nehamas
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780465098613

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On Friendship by Alexander Nehamas Pdf

An eminent philosopher reflects on the nature of friendship, past and present Friends are a constant feature of our lives, yet friendship itself is difficult to define. Even Michel de Montaigne, author of the seminal essay "Of Friendship," found it nearly impossible to account for the great friendship of his life. Why is something so commonplace and universal so hard to grasp? What is it about the nature of friendship that proves so elusive? In On Friendship, the acclaimed philosopher Alexander Nehamas launches an original and far-ranging investigation of friendship. Exploring the long history of philosophical thinking on the subject, from Aristotle to Emerson and beyond, and drawing on examples from literature, art, drama, and his own life, Nehamas shows that for centuries, friendship was as much a public relationship as it was a private one-inseparable from politics and commerce, favors and perks. Now that it is more firmly in the private realm, Nehamas holds, close friendship is central to the good life. Profound and affecting, On Friendship sheds light on why we love our friends-and how they determine who we are, and who we might become.

Author : Paul J. Wadell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606083697

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The Primacy of Love by Paul J. Wadell Pdf

Thomas Aquinas was a man with a strategy -- not a strategy to assist us in good decision-making or a strategy to help us resolve our problems of conscience, but a strategy to work toward our personal transformation in light of God's love for us. Aquinas has traditionally been represented as a man whose ethics are overly rational, excessively formal, and too scholarly to be of much use in contemporary society. The Primacy of Love gives us a fresh look at his ethical thought and invites us to become part of his vision of the moral life as partners in God's perfect love. Author Paul Wadell gives special attention to the role of the passions, affections, and emotions in our moral life and creates a richly humane and compelling study written in a clear and accessible style. The Primacy of Love is a modern map for our own moral journey that is not so much something to study, but a way of life in which to participate. To follow this journey is to take up an adventure that will involve you from the center of your being and will change you forever.

Author : Gilbert Meilaender
Publisher : Revisions
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0268009562

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Friendship, a Study in Theological Ethics by Gilbert Meilaender Pdf

Certain relationships are of profound importance for the moral life. Gilbert C. Meilaender explores some of the tensions which Christian experience discovers in one such relationship, the bond of friendship. These tensions help to explain why friendship was a more important topic in the life and thought of the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome than it has unusually been within Christendom. The bond of friendship (philia) involves special preference; Christian love (agape) is thought to be like the love of the heavenly Father who makes his sun rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust. Philia requires that love be returned; agape is to be shown even the enemy, who does not love in return. Friendships sometimes fade away; Christians are enjoined to be faithful in love. These tensions have permeated our lives and helped to shape our world. We think politics a more important sphere than the private friendship bond. We seek fulfillment in and identify ourselves with our vocations -- by which we now mean, work for pay -- not our friendships. And in a world where politics and vocation are all-important, lasting friendships become more difficult to sustain. Friendship examines the tension between philia and agape and probes its significance for Christian thought and experience.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Friendship
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004984535

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On Friendship by Aristotle Pdf

Author : GILBERT MEILAENDER,Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor in Christian Ethics Gilbert Meilaender
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1981-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0268079552

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Friendship by GILBERT MEILAENDER,Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor in Christian Ethics Gilbert Meilaender Pdf

Author : Michael H. Mitias
Publisher : Brill Rodopi
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9042034386

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Friendship by Michael H. Mitias Pdf

Friendship was recognized as a central moral value in the classical period, but it was dismissed from medieval, modern, and twentieth century moral theories. This book argues that this dismissal is unjustifiable. The validity of this claim is established in four steps. First, it proposes the concept of moral paradigm. This concept enables us to explore the source of moral value and to provide a criterion for the evaluation of the adequacy of moral theory. Second, the book explains why medieval, modern and twentieth century moral theorists neglected friendship as a central moral value in their analysis of moral behavior and why this neglect was unjustifiable. Third, it explains why the classical moral philosophers viewed friendship as a central moral value. Fourth, it argues that friendship is an ontological need, therefore, a necessary condition of the moral life. This need is implicitly recognized in the moral paradigms that underlie the moral theories of the medieval, modern, and twentieth century moral theories. Accordingly it cannot be neglected in the process of moral theorizing.

Author : Gary Chartier
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506479095

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Understanding Friendship by Gary Chartier Pdf

What is friendship? Is it ethically important? Does it exist outside ethics? Is it a potential distraction from the love of God or from moral responsibility? How might it nourish our spiritual lives? How should we make sense of the moral responsibilities we often take ourselves to have to our friends? Does friendship have anything to do with politics? Understanding Friendship answers these questions by painting a picture of friendship as a vibrant expression of Christian love that can enrich individual lives even as in various ways it can also prove socially, culturally, politically, and spiritually significant. Through a wide-ranging, erudite, yet accessible exploration of theological and philosophical traditions, Understanding Friendship examines what friendship is while showing how its distinctive moral status can be supported by multiple approaches to Christian ethics. Understanding Friendship ultimately reveals friendship's place in a fruitful understanding of Christian spirituality.

Author : Paul W. Ludwig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,8 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.