Philosophy and friendship. ([2019?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sandra Lynch.
• Authors: Lynch, Sandra
• Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- PART I Identity and Difference in Philosophical Conceptions of Friendship -- 1 Approaching the Kaleidoscope of Friendship -- Friendship: the Fluidity of the Concept -- Ancient Notions of Friendship -- The Aristotelian Taxonomy -- The Kantian Taxonomy -- 2 The Friend as Another Self -- Friendship and Identification with the Other -- The Friend as a Second Self -- Elective Affinity -- Friendship and Self-Sufficiency -- 3 The Other Self as Friend -- Difference: Threats and Challenges Self-Consciousness and its Implications for Friendship -- Celebrating Difference -- Friendship, Illusion and Fragility -- PART II Friendship as an Ethical Relationship -- 4 Re-Imagining the Possibilityof Friendship -- The Moral Significance of Friendship -- Aristotelian and Kantian Heritage -- Intentionality and Inclination -- Resolving Tension -- Duty, Difference and Expectation -- PART III The Relationship between Friendship and Self-Understanding -- 5 Seeing Oneself as Friend -- Friendship and the Constitution of the Self -- Thinking Reasonably about Emotion Emotions, Judgements and Characterisation -- Reading the Other: Imaginative Transfer and the Integration of Reason and Emotion -- Seeing Oneself as Friend: Self-love and Self-concern -- Friendship, Self-Knowledge and Understanding -- 6 Friendship in Contemporary Life -- Friendship, Fragmentation and Creativity -- Balance in an Unstable Enterprise -- The Ambiguity of Friendship -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages)
• Subjects: 177.62; Friendship -- Philosophy; Amitié -- Philosophie; PHILOSOPHY -- Political; Friendship -- Philosophy; Philosophy & Religion; Philosophy; Vriendschap; Filosofische aspecten; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474470360
• Related ISBNs: 147447036X; 0748617272; 9780748617272
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202) and index.
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