The Root of Friendship

The Root of Friendship
ISBN-10
0813226058
ISBN-13
9780813226057
Category
Religion
Pages
164
Language
English
Published
2014-05
Publisher
CUA Press
Author
Anthony T. Flood

Description

The Root of Friendship addresses the connections between self-love and self-governance in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and defends three related theses. First, Aquinas's account of proper self-love is a description of the nature and importance of a person's subjective self- experience. Second, his notion of self-governance cannot be understood fully unless we grasp its basis in self-love. Finally, his account both satisfies contemporary conditions of relevance for self-governance and offers attractive solutions to issues raised in analytic discussions on such matters.

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