| Series |
Mnemosyne supplements, 0169-8958 ; volume 429
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 429. ^A492133
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| Contents |
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. |
| Abstract |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Berkel, Tazuko Angela van, 1979- The economics of friendship Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004416130 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019039752 |
| ISBN | 9789004416147 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
