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Daniel Schwartz examines the views on friendship of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas friendship is the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Schwartz argues that Aquinas fundamentally revises some of the main features of Aristotle's paradigmatic account of friendship so as to accommodate the case of friendship between radically unequal beings: man and God. As a result, Aquinas presents a broader view of friendship than Aristotle's, allowing for a higher extent of disagreement. lack of mutual understanding, and inequality between friends.
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David Schwartz is Lecturer in Politics in the School of Languages & Social Sciences at Aston University.
Table of Contents
Abbreviations and Conventions xv
Larger Themes 1
Friendship and Amicitia 1
The Importance of Friends 3
Acts of Friendship 6
What Concord Requires 22
'Concord is a Union of Wills, Not of Opinions' 22
Disagreement and Friendship 31
Why Conflicting Beliefs Alone Do Not Create Discord: A Look at Heresy 34
Conclusion 41
Friendship and Conformity of Wills 42
Background 43
Conformity of Wills and the Friend's Reasons 46
Conformity of Wills and Disparity of Circumstances 57
Ways of Willing the Same 61
Political Implications of Aquinas's Position on the Conformity of Wills of Friendship 66
What Prevents Us from Joining Other People's Projects?: Pride as an Impediment to Conformity of Wills 69
Nilling What Another Wills: Schism, Sedition, and Discord 70
Vainglory and Unwillingness to Agree with Others 72
Pride and Unwillingness to Agree with Others 74
Conformity of Wills Revisited 87
The Law as a Cure for Pride 88
Human Institutions and Pride 90
Summary 92
Friendship and Uncertainty: Presumptions and Hope 94
Present Friendship and the Presumption of Authenticity 95
Hope and Future Friendship 107
Conclusion 121
Friendship and Recourse to Justice 123
Justice between Friends 124
Friendship as a Condition of Just Exchange 133
Summary 139
Justice, Satisfaction, and Restoration of Friendship 142
Satisfaction and Friendship 143
Friendship and Quantitative Satisfaction 151
Summary 160
Concluding Remarks 162
The Duality of the Rational Volition in Christ's Human Nature and Friendship with God 165
Bibliography 167
Index Locorum 175
Index of Subjects 182
Index of Names and Places 187