Aquinas on Friendship (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199205394)

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: Schwartz
ISBN-10: 0199205396
ISBN-13: 9780199205394
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2007
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 0.80d