TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitias,Michael H.
TI  - Friendship: A Central Moral Value
T2  - Value Inquiry Book Series
SN  - 9789401207256
AV  - B105.F75 -- M58 2012eb 
U1  - 177.62 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Editions Rodopi
KW  - Friendship -- Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction Thesis and Plan of the Book -- One Concept of Moral Paradigm -- Two Moral Paradigms in Hellenic and Hellenistic Cultures -- Three Friendship in Hellenic and Hellenistic Moral Theory -- Four Friendship in Medieval Moral Theory -- Five Friendship in Modern Moral Theory -- Six Friendship in Contemporary Moral Theory -- Seven Friendship as an Ontological Need -- Notes -- About The Author -- Works Cited -- Index
N2  - Friendship was recognized as a central moral value in the classical period, but it was dismissed from medieval, modern, and twentieth century moral theories. This book argues that this dismissal is unjustifiable. The validity of this claim is established in four steps. First, it proposes the concept of moral paradigm. This concept enables us to explore the source of moral value and to provide a criterion for the evaluation of the adequacy of moral theory. Second, the book explains why medieval, modern and twentieth century moral theorists neglected friendship as a central moral value in their analysis of moral behavior and why this neglect was unjustifiable. Third, it explains why the classical moral philosophers viewed friendship as a central moral value. Fourth, it argues that friendship is an ontological need, therefore, a necessary condition of the moral life. This need is implicitly recognized in the moral paradigms that underlie the moral theories of the medieval, modern, and twentieth century moral theories. Accordingly it cannot be neglected in the process of moral theorizing
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