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The economics of friendship [electronic resource] : conceptions of reciprocity in classical Greece / by Tazuko Angela van Berkel

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Berkel, Tazuko Angela van, 1979-
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
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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.
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"--
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9789004416147 (ebook)
9789004416130 (hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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