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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-100872201147
ISBN-139780872201149
eBay Product ID (ePID)293586
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameOther Selves : Philosophers on Friendship
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1991
SubjectFriendship, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Philosophy
AuthorMichael Pakaluk
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length6.1 in
Item Width9.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN90-044276
Dewey Edition20
ReviewsFriendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due. Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers on the subject and collected them into a handsome and handy volume. . . . A splendid book! --M. M. Wartofsky, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, City University of New York
Dewey Decimal177/.6
Table Of ContentContents: Plato, Lysis. Translated by Stanley Lombardo; Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Books VIII and IX), Rhetoric (II.4), Translated by Terence Irwin; Cicero: On Friendship (De Amicitia), Translated by Frank Copley; Seneca: On Philosophy and Friendship and On Grief for Lost Friends, Translated by R. M. Gummere; Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship (De Spiritali Amicitia, Book 1), Translated by Eugenia Laker, S.S.N.D.; Thomas Aquinas, Questions on Love and Charity (from Summa Theologiae), Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province; Montaigne: Of Friendship, Translated by Donald M. Frame; Francis Bacon: Of Friendship; Immanuel Kant: Lecture on Friendship, Translated by Louis Infield; Ralph Waldo Emerson: Friendship; Soren Kierkegaard: You Shall Love Your Neighbor (from Works of Love), Translated by Howard and Edna Hong; Elizabeth Telfer: Friendship; Bibliography.
Synopsis"Friendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due. Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers on the subject and collected them into a handsome and handy volume. . . . A splendid book " --M. M. Wartofsky, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, City University of New York, "Friendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due. Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers on the subject and collected them into a handsome and handy volume. . . . A splendid book!" --M. M. Wartofsky, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, City University of New York