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Amor amicitiae = On the love that is friendship : essays in medieval thought and beyond in honor of the Rev. Professor James McEvoy

"This volume honors the Rev. Professor James McEvoy on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. The theory of friendship, which has been one of McEvoy's major fields of research and publication, used to be at the heart of the philosophical project, and indissociable from it. For Socrates, philosophy was possible only as the pursuit of wisdom, virtue, and beauty in a community of friends engaged in an "erotic" quest for the good. The present volume wants to make a contribution to the recovery of the friendship theme in its central importance to philosophy. It contains eighteen contributions by colleagues and pupils of Professor McEvoy from three different continents, who approach the topics of friendship, love, and charity from a variety of different angles. This volume will help to throw into higher relief the importance of the philosophy of friendship, as well as stimulating further discussion on this topic."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2004
Peeters, Leuven, 2004
Spanish language materials
vi, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9789042913950, 9042913959
53315229
James McEvoy: an appreciation / Thomas A.F. Kelly & Philipp W. Rosemann
Corpore divisos sed mentis amore ligatos: a diaspora reflection on a friend as "home" in Helen Waddell's Medieval Latin Lyrics / Deirdre Carabine
The significance of friendship: reconciling the classical ideals of friendship and self-sufficiency / Eoin G. Cassidy
The Telos of modern enlightenment: universal and total love / James Daly
Tyranny and the recess of friendship / William Desmond
Death of a friend in Confessions 4: the rhetoric of God / Raymond DiLorenzo
Good friends or bad friends? The Amicitia of Boncompagno da Signa / Michael Dunne
"Certes, sans cela". Über einige Grenzbestimmungen der Freundschaft bei Montaigne / Klaus Hedwig
Towards an ontology of love / Thomas A.F. Kelly
Personal friends / Mette Lebech
What both the bad and the good bring to friendships in their strange variety / Alasdair MacIntyre
Más allá de uno mismo: sentido de la vida y amistad según Aristóteles / Jorge Martínez. The problem of empathy: Lipps, Scheler, Husserl and Stein / Dermot Moran
Friendship in St. Augustine and in Igbo traditional thought / J. Obi Oguejiofor
Buridan et l'amitié / Benoît Patar
Amor amicitiae in the Bhagavad Gita / Brendan Purcell
Clément d'Alexandrie et la [philia (romanized form)] "chrétienne" / Laura Rizzerio
Fraterna dilectio est Deus: Peter Lombard's thesis on charity as the Holy Spirit / Philipp W. Rosemann
Thomas Aquinas on preferential love / Carlos Steel
English, French, German, and Spanish