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.

Preface

Part 1. Plato and Aristotle

1. Philia in Plato
Dimitri El Murr

2. Aristotle on Friendship: Insight from the Four Causes
Gary M. Gurtler, SJ

3. Souls Great and Small: Aristotle on Self-Knowledge, Friendship, and Civic Engagement
Suzanne Stern-Gillet

Part 2. Hellenistic Philosophers

4. Making Friends: The Stoic Conception of Love and Its Platonic Background
Bernard Collette-Dučić

5. Erōs and Philia in Epicurean Philosophy
Harry Lesser

6. Cicero’s Stoic Friend as Resolution to the Paradoxes of Platonic Love: The Amicitia alongside the Symposium
Robin Weiss

Part 3. Patristic and Medieval Philosophers

7. Friendship in Late Antiquity: The Case of Gregory Nazianzen and Basil the Great
John Panteleimon Manoussakis

8. Adiutrix Virtutum?: Augustine on Friendship and Virtue
Tamer Nawar

9. Aelred of Rievaulx on Friendship
John R. Sommerfeldt

10. Thomas Aquinas: Charity as Friendship
Fergus Kerr, OP

Part 4. Enlightenment Thinkers

11. Aristotle and Kant on Self-Disclosure in Friendship
Andrea Veltman

12. The Platonic Roots of Hölderlin’s Concept of Friendship in Hyperion
Sandra Dučić-Collette

Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index