The Root of Friendship

Download or read book The Root of Friendship written by Anthony T. Flood and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Root of Friendship addresses the connections between self-love and self-governance in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and defends three related theses. First, Aquinas's account of proper self-love is a description of the nature and importance of a person's subjective self- experience. Second, his notion of self-governance cannot be understood fully unless we grasp its basis in self-love. Finally, his account both satisfies contemporary conditions of relevance for self-governance and offers attractive solutions to issues raised in analytic discussions on such matters.