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1 online resource (547 pages) |
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Mnemosyne, Supplements Ser |
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Mnemosyne, Supplements Ser
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3. False Friends, Part Two: Economics, Ancient and Modern -- 4. Education and the Logic of Wage-Earning -- 5. Concluding Remarks: The Givenness of the Good -- Chapter 6. Active Partnership: Socrates and the Art of Seduction -- The Argument -- 1. Amazing Grace: Looking as a Reciprocal Endeavor -- 2. The Hunter Hunted: Role Reversals and the Paradox of the Hetaera -- 3. Desire Management -- 4. The Secrets of Love Magic -- 5. The Socratic Principle: Pay It Forward -- 6. Concluding Remarks: Language Games at the Market Frontier |
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Chapter 7. Relational Economics: Aristotle on Value and Equivalence -- 1. Aristotle Discovers the Economy? -- 2. Equivalence -- 3. Value and Values -- 4. The Politics of Need -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Epilogue: Hostile Worlds -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Greek Terminology -- Index of Ancient Sources -- List of Key Passages |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Friendship -- Greece
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Friendship in literature.
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Values -- Greece
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Exchange -- Greece
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Interpersonal relations -- Greece
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Civilization
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Exchange
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Friendship
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Friendship in literature
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Interpersonal relations
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Values
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
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Greece
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004416147 |
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9004416145 |
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