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Mary P. Nichols is professor of political science and department chair at Baylor University. She is the author of numerous books and articles in the history of political thought and politics, literature, and film. Her main areas of research are classical political theory (for example, Citizens and mostrar mais Statesmen: A Commentary on Aristotle's "Politics"), Shakespeare, and film directors such as Woody Allen, John Ford, and Alfred Hitchcock. She is a senior Fellow at The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York. mostrar menos

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The Oxford handbook of Thucydides (2017) — Contribuinte — 16 cópias

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This, like other works that purport to deal with Socrates and friendship, primarily goes at its subject by addressing Socrates on erotic love, which I take to be a very different thing from friendship.

She opposes the picture of Socrates painted by Nietzsche and Kierkegaard in favor of a Socrates who is decidedly earth bound, but this is hardly a novel contribution to the literature. More novel is her claim that friendship is analogous to philosophy, and serves as its standard, although in the final analysis I find this is too weak a claim.

For Socrates friendship is not merely analogous to philosophy, it is a fundamental and ineliminable element of his philosophic method.
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reganrule | Feb 22, 2016 |

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