Love and Friendship Across Cultures

Perspectives from East and West
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-981-334-836-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

This collection brings together different philosophical points of view discussing two important aspects of human life, namely love and friendship, within the broad context of comparative philosophy. These points of view differ in terms of their cultural orientations - East or West, ancient or modern; philosophical methodologies - analytical, historical, experimental, or phenomenological, broadly construed; and motivation - explanatory, revisionary, or argumentative. The volume is a comparative treatment of how diverse philosophical cultures view love and friendship, such as how Aristotle and Confucius’ views on friendship are similar and different, how the ancient Greeks and the Buddhists view friendship and happiness, and how posthumous love is possible. With contributions from a diverse set of scholars, this book presents the emerging views of Southeast Asian philosophers compared with those of philosophers from other regions, including Europe and North America. The volume thus provides a multi-faceted way of understanding love and friendship across cultures, and will be relevant to scholars interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, Asian Studies, and religious studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joaquin, Jeremiah Joven

Hongladarom, Soraj

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: ANCIENT.- Aristotle and Confucians on Friendship.- Aristotle’s and Buddha’s Notion of Happiness: A Comparative Study.- Friendship in Aristotle and Buddhism: Confluences and Divergences.- Philia and Agape: Ancient Greek Ethics of Friendship and Christian Theology of Love.- Towards a Confucian Ethics of Humane Online Relations.- Historical Perspectives: Modern and Contemporary.- When Pompey’s Elephants Trumpeted for Mercy: Levinas and Solidarity for the Animal Face.- The Good in Articulation: Describing the Co-Constitution of Self, Practice, and Value.- Nietzsche on Actively Forgetting one’s Promise.- Love as an Act of Resistance: Bell Hooks on Love.- Conceptual Analyses.- Posthumous Love as a Rational Virtue.- Awareness and Aloneness as Foundations of Love and Friendship.- Romantic Love as a Love Story.- For a Moment or for Eternity: A Metaphysics of Perduring Lovers.

Über Autor(innen)

Soraj Hongladarom is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Chulalongkorn University. He is also President of the Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand. His research mainly focuses on problems arising at the intersections of technology and culture, especially information technology. He is the author of The Ethics of AI: A Buddhist Viewpoint (Lexington Books), as well as The Online Self, and A Buddhist Theory of Privacy, both published by Springer.

Jeremiah Joven B. Joaquin is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. He has published works on logic, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, gender studies, and experimental philosophy. He is the current President of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines, and the founding Secretary General of the Union of Societies and Associations of Philosophy in the Philippines.