Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship

Suzanne Stern-Gillet is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Bolton and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Aristotle's Philosophy of Friendship, also published by SUNY Press. Gary M. Gurtler, S.J. is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of Plotinus: The Experience of Unity.

• PrefacePart 1. Plato and Aristotle 1. Philia in PlatoDimitri El Murr2. Aristotle on Friendship: Insight from the Four CausesGary M. Gurtler, SJ3. Souls Great and Small: Aristotle on Self-Knowledge, Friendship, and Civic EngagementSuzanne Stern-GilletPart 2. Hellenistic Philosophers 4. Making Friends: The Stoic Conception of Love and Its Platonic BackgroundBernard Collette-Dučić5. Erōs and Philia in Epicurean PhilosophyHarry Lesser6. Cicero’s Stoic Friend as Resolution to the Paradoxes of Platonic Love: The Amicitia alongside the SymposiumRobin WeissPart 3. Patristic and Medieval Philosophers 7. Friendship in Late Antiquity: The Case of Gregory Nazianzen and Basil the GreatJohn Panteleimon Manoussakis8. Adiutrix Virtutum?: Augustine on Friendship and VirtueTamer Nawar9. Aelred of Rievaulx on FriendshipJohn R. Sommerfeldt 10. Thomas Aquinas: Charity as FriendshipFergus Kerr, OPPart 4. Enlightenment Thinkers 11. Aristotle and Kant on Self-Disclosure in FriendshipAndrea Veltman12. The Platonic Roots of Hölderlin’s Concept of Friendship in HyperionSandra Dučić-ColletteContributorsName IndexSubject Index

"...[a] fine volume." — International Journal of the Platonic Tradition"…a useful collection of essays … The contributors, along with the editors who have shepherded them, have done a good job engaging in conversation with the tradition of thinkers on friendship, and with one another." — Polis"…the arrangement and choice of subject matter will greatly serve scholars interested in the development of theories of friendship as well as the history of this discussion in the classical and post-classical world." — Scripta Classica Israelica