Other Selves: Aristotle on Personal and Political Friendship (Suny Series in Ethical Theory) - Softcover

Schollmeier, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791416844 ISBN 13: 9780791416846

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1994

Synopsis

This book presents a thorough and systematic integration of Aristotle's analysis of friendship with the main lines of the rest of his work in Politics and Nicomachean Ethics. The author conveys a clear sense of the continuing illumination that Aristotle's analysis of friendship provides to contemporary ethical theorists and to students of Aristotle. Other Selves speaks to both audiences.

About this title

Synopsis:

A systematic integration of Aristotle's analysis of friendship with the main lines of the rest of his work in Politics and Nicomachean Ethics . Schollmeier (philosophy, U. of Nevada, Las Vegas) makes use of Aristotle's own principle, that of happiness, as a guide in his consideration of Aristotle's theory and to show that the theory has unity as we

About the Author:

Paul Schollmeier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is the Director of the Goodsprings Philosophical Institute.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0791416844
• ISBN 13: 9780791416846
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236