Though persons are separate, their lives need not be. One person's life may overflow into another's, so that, according to Price, helping the other person is a way of helping oneself. Price suggests that this idea is present in the accounts of love and friendship given by both Plato and Aristotle. He also argues that their views on love and friendship in personal relationships, the household and the city-state can resolve the old dichotomy between altruism and egoism.
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Though persons are separate, their lives need not be. One person's life may overflow into another's, so that, according to Price, helping the other person is a way of helping oneself. Price suggests that this idea is present in the accounts of love and friendship given by both Plato and Aristotle. He also argues that their views on love and friendship in personal relationships, the household and the city-state can resolve the old dichotomy between altruism and egoism.
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0198249640. Minor Shelfwear. Dustjacket has small abrasion along the spine which has rubbed the colour off else NF; This book explores for the first time an idea common to both Plato and Aristotle: although people are separate, their lives need not be; one person's life may overflow into another's, so that helping someone else is a way of serving oneself. Price considers how this idea unites the philosophers' treatments of love and friendship (which are otherwise very different), and demonstrates that this view of love and friendship, applied not only to personal relationships, but also to the household and even the city-state, promises to resolve the old dichotomy between egoism and altruism.; 278 pages.
