Love, Friendship, and the Self: Intimacy, Identification, and the Social Nature of Persons

by Bennett W. Helm

Book Overview

Recent Western thought has consistently emphasized the individualistic strand in our understanding of persons at the expense of the social strand. Thus, it is generally thought that persons are self-determining and autonomous, where these are understood to be capacities we exercise most fully on our own, apart from others, whose influence on us tends to undermine that autonomy. Love, Friendship, and the Self argues that we must reject a strongly individualistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199642567
• ISBN13: 9780199642564
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"