Ancient and medieval concepts of friendship / edited by Suzanne Stern-Gillet and Gary M. Gurtler, S.J.

Contributor Stern-Gillet, Suzanne, 1943- editor of compilation.

Imprint:Albany : SUNY Press, [2014]

Descriptionxvi, 327 pages ; 24 cm.

Note:Plato and Aristotle -- Philia in Plato / Dimitri El Murr -- Aristotle on friendship : insight from the four causes / Gary M. Gurtler -- Souls great and small : Aristotle on self-knowledge, friendship, and civic engagement / Suzanne Stern-Gillet -- Hellenistic philosophers -- Making friends : the stoic conception of love and its platonic background / Bernard Collette-Ducic -- Eros and Philia in Epicurean philosophy / Harry Lesser -- Cicero's stoic friend as resolution to the paradoxes of platonic love : the Amicitia alongside the symposium / Robin Weiss -- Patristic and medieval philosophers -- Friendship in Late Antiquity : the case of Gregory Nazianzen and Basil the Great / John Panteleimon Manoussakis -- Adiutrix virtutum? : Augustine on friendship and virtue / Tamer Nawar -- Aelred of Rievaulx on friendship / John R. Sommerfeldt -- Thomas Aquinas : charity as friendship / Fergus Kerr -- Enlightenment thinkers -- Aristotle and Kant on self-disclosure in friendship / Andrea Veltman -- The platonic roots of Hlderlin's concept of friendship in Hyperion / Sandra Ducic-Collette.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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