Virtuous Friendship
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Virtuous Friendship
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Author : Douglas A. Hume
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2019-07-19
Virtuous Friendship written by Douglas A. Hume and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-19 with Religion categories.
Why do so many feel so lonely today? Are our friendships in breakdown mode, or are they just changing? Why are we burdened with the creeping sense that our communities are falling apart? Sociologists report that in recent decades the number of Americans who have no one in whom to confide may have tripled. Likewise, church attendance, participation in local clubs and groups, even the number of times we invite one another over to supper are all in decline. Meanwhile, some of us have more “friends” than ever on social media. The question of friendship, its definition, virtue, and quality, is not a new one to the church or the culture in which Christianity was birthed. Greco-Roman ethicists were fascinated by the virtue of friendship. Taking a cue from Jesus, the New Testament authors transformed Greco-Roman friendship notions to express visions of Christian community that were spiritually fulfilling, sustainably flourishing, and socially just. This book traces the New Testament transformation of friendship in specific passages in Matthew, Luke, John, Acts, Philippians, and James, and connects them to contemporary issues and cutting-edge experiments in Christian community. It is New Testament Theology for the twenty-first century.
True Friendship
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Author : John Cuddeback, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2021-01-22
True Friendship written by John Cuddeback, Ph.D. and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-22 with Religion categories.
We all want true friends. But how many of us really know what friendship is, or where to find it? In these pages, philosopher John Cuddeback weaves together the timeless wisdom of Scripture, of the ancient Greeks, and the saints to map out the steep and beautiful path to man's greatest joy—true friendship. Following Aristotle's teachings on the unbreakable connection between happiness and virtuous living, Cuddeback sees friendship at the very center of the human drama. Although there are different kinds of friendship, the deepest kind can only be achieved through a life of virtue, and this is where the human person comes most fully alive. True Friendship offers simple yet rich advice on how to tap into this reality in our own lives. Such friendship demands much of us, but it gives us even more, as individuals and as a society. Both the Old and New Testaments place a premium on friendship. In the Christian vision, the philosophers' insights attain a broader supernatural perspective. Christ transforms human friendship and expands it. With help from the writings of Saints Thomas and Aelred, Cuddeback discovers what lies at the heart of the Christian life—the wondrous and unsurpassable reality of friendship with God in Jesus, the Divine Friend, who is at work in all our authentic friendships.
Friendship For Virtue
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Author : Kristján Kristjánsson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-01
Friendship For Virtue written by Kristján Kristjánsson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-01 with Philosophy categories.
Through its revised and applied Aristotelianism, this book illuminates our understanding of friendship in moral philosophy, moral psychology, and moral education. Friendship for Virtue has four main aims. The first is to give the virtue of friendship the pride of place it deserves in contemporary Aristotle-inspired virtue ethics. The second is to integrate Aristotelian theory with recent social scientific research on friendship through mutual adjustments. The third is to retrieve Aristotelian friendship as a moral educational concept, where 'friendship for virtue' is to be understood as 'friendship for virtue development'. The fourth is to offer a more detailed and realistic account than Aristotle did of why even the best of friendships can go stale and dissolve and why the human relationships they represent are so precarious - for example in circumstances where erotic love and friendship clash.
Aristotle S Philosophy Of Friendship
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Author : Suzanne Stern-Gillet
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1995-03-30
Aristotle S Philosophy Of Friendship written by Suzanne Stern-Gillet and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-30 with Philosophy categories.
Presents the major issues in Aristotle's writings on Friendship.
Contemplating Friendship In Aristotle S Ethics
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Author : Ann Ward
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2016-09-30
Contemplating Friendship In Aristotle S Ethics written by Ann Ward and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-30 with Philosophy categories.
Examines how Aristotle posits political philosophy and the experience of friendship as a means to bind strictly intellectual virtue with morality. In this book, Ann Ward explores Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on the progressive structure of the argument. Aristotle begins by giving an account of moral virtue from the perspective of the moral agent, only to find that the account itself highlights fundamental tensions within the virtues that push the moral agent into the realm of intellectual virtue. However, the existence of an intellectual realm separate from the moral realm can lead to lack of self-restraint. Aristotle, Ward argues, locates political philosophy and the experience of friendship as possible solutions to the problem of lack of self-restraint, since political philosophy thinks about the human things in a universal way, and friendship grounds the pursuit of the good which is happiness understood as contemplation. Ward concludes that Aristotles philosophy of friendship points to the embodied intellect of timocratic friends and mothers in their activity of mothering as engaging in the highest form of contemplation and thus living the happiest life.
Friendship And Virtue Ethics In The Book Of Job
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Author : Patricia Vesely
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-28
Friendship And Virtue Ethics In The Book Of Job written by Patricia Vesely and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-28 with Bibles categories.
Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective.
On Friendship
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Author : Alexander Nehamas
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2016-05-03
On Friendship written by Alexander Nehamas and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with Philosophy categories.
An eminent philosopher reflects on the nature of friendship, past and present Friends are a constant feature of our lives, yet friendship itself is difficult to define. Even Michel de Montaigne, author of the seminal essay "Of Friendship," found it nearly impossible to account for the great friendship of his life. Why is something so commonplace and universal so hard to grasp? What is it about the nature of friendship that proves so elusive? In On Friendship, the acclaimed philosopher Alexander Nehamas launches an original and far-ranging investigation of friendship. Exploring the long history of philosophical thinking on the subject, from Aristotle to Emerson and beyond, and drawing on examples from literature, art, drama, and his own life, Nehamas shows that for centuries, friendship was as much a public relationship as it was a private one-inseparable from politics and commerce, favors and perks. Now that it is more firmly in the private realm, Nehamas holds, close friendship is central to the good life. Profound and affecting, On Friendship sheds light on why we love our friends-and how they determine who we are, and who we might become.
Aristotle And The Philosophy Of Friendship
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Author : Lorraine Smith Pangle
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-14
Aristotle And The Philosophy Of Friendship written by Lorraine Smith Pangle and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-14 with Philosophy categories.
This book offers a comprehensive account of the major philosophical works on friendship and its relationship to self-love. The book gives central place to Aristotle's searching examination of friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics. Lorraine Pangle argues that the difficulties surrounding this discussion are soon dispelled once one understands the purpose of the Ethics as both a source of practical guidance for life and a profound, theoretical investigation into human nature. The book also provides fresh interpretations of works on friendship by Plato, Cicero, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne and Bacon. The author shows how each of these thinkers sheds light on central questions of moral philosophy: is human sociability rooted in neediness or strength? is the best life chiefly solitary, or dedicated to a community with others? Clearly structured and engagingly written, this book will appeal to a broad swathe of readers across philosophy, classics and political science.
Friendship
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Author : A. C. Grayling
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-22
Friendship written by A. C. Grayling and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-22 with Philosophy categories.
DIVDIVDIVAn entertaining and provocative investigation of friendship in all its variety, from ancient times to the present day/div/div/div
To Be A Friend
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Author : Jerry White
language : en
Publisher: Tyndale House
Release Date : 2014-01-31
To Be A Friend written by Jerry White and has been published by Tyndale House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-31 with Religion categories.
Friendship is not a rational process. While reasoning and discerning play a part in our choices of friends, feelings and emotions are strong elements as well. Much of the conscious development of our circle of friends rests on an understanding of the elements and foundations of friendship. There is no magic formula. Friendship choices rest on principles and concepts. Friendships take effort. They hold a bit of mystery. They can’t be manufactured. But they are priceless. Walk with Jerry and Mary White in To Be a Friend as they probe and discover together the great adventure of being and having friends.
