The economics of friendship : conceptions of reciprocity in classical Greece
Tazuko Angela van Berkel
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
| Omfang | viii, 539 sider
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: the economics of friendship -- Grace under pressure: the anatomy of kharis -- The most ancient of obligations: the nature of filial duty -- A debtor paradigm of obligation: principles of moral accounting -- Pricing the invaluable: Socrates and the proper use of friends -- Active partnership: Socrates and the art of seduction -- Relational economics: Aristotle on value and equivalence -- Epilogue: hostile worlds.. - "In The Economics of Friendship, Tazuko Angela van Berkel offers an account of the notion of reciprocity in 5th- and 4th-century Greek incepting social theory. The preoccupation with the norms of philia and charis conspicuous in sources from the Classical Period, is a symptom of changes in the shape of ancient economic activities: the ubiquitous norm that one should reciprocate benefit with benefit becomes a source of conceptual confusion in the Classical Period, where other forms of exchange become conceptually available. This confusion and tension between different models of mutuality, is productive: it is the impetus for folk theory in comedy, tragedy and oratory, as well as philosophical reflection (Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle) on what it is that binds people together"--
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| ISBN | 9789004416130
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