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Article: Pangle, Lorraine Smith. Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship.(Book Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 255 pp. Cloth, $65.00--Pangle's thesis is that Aristotle's account of friendship in Nicomachean Ethics 8 and 9 addresses multiple audiences. For his ostensible audience, statesmen and other men of action, Aristotle paints an enticing picture of friendship that is based on moral virtue and issues in acts of benevolence. However, he embeds within this analysis subtle "tensions" designed to signal to thoughtful readers the limits of moral virtue and so to provoke them to pursue a philosophical life as well as to provide them the material for philosophical contemplation. Pangle thinks that this second group, potential ...
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