Aristotle And The Philosophy Of Friendship

 "Lorraine Smith Pangle's explanation and illumination of Aristotle's understanding of friendship is brilliant, the best I know. Reasoned and written with clarity and grace, it is shaped by careful scholarship and full of valuable wisdom." 
       - Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History, Yale University

 "A remarkable study of friendship, a neglected topic in the far-sighted modern philosophy that worships humannity only at a distance. Lorraine Pangle looks at us in a closer and sharper focus where self-interest and altruism meet, and where we have Aristotle as teacher. Her book is comprehensive in treatment, careful and cogent in argument, and masterful in its scholarship." 
       - Harvery Mansfield, Professor of Government, Harvard University

 "…beautifully written, lucid in its arguments, responsible in its scholarship…makes an original and substantial contribution to the interpretation of Aristotle's analysis of friendship…"       
       - David Konstan, Brown University

1. The Challenge of Plato's Lysis
2. The Three Kinds of Friendship
3. Aristotle and Montaigne on Friendship as the Greatest Good
4. Friendships in Politics and the Family
5. Cicero's Laelius: Political Friendship at Its Best
6. Quarrels, Conflicting Claims, and Dissolutions
7. Friends as Other Selves
8. Goodwill, Concord, and the Love of Benefactors
9. Self-Love and Noble Sacrifice
10. Friendship in the Happy Life