Aquinas on Friendship (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199645299)

Daniel Schwartz examines the views on friendship of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas friendship is the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Schwartz argues that Aquinas fundamentally revises some of the main features of Aristotle's paradigmatic account of friendship so as to accommodate the case of friendship between radically unequal beings: man and God. As a result, Aquinas presents a broader view of friendship than Aristotle's, allowing for a higher extent of disagreement. lack of mutual understanding, and inequality between friends.

Author: Daniel Schwartz
ISBN-10: 0199645299
ISBN-13: 9780199645299
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2012
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d