The economics of friendship : conceptions of reciprocity in classical Greece /

The economics of friendship : conceptions of reciprocity in classical Greece /

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...

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Main Author: Berkel, Tazuko Angela van, 1979- (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences; volume147.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004393820.

Subjects:

Friendship > Greece.
Friendship in literature.
Values > Greece.
Exchange > Greece.
Interpersonal relations > Greece.
Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C.

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Call Number: DF78 GN486.3

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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: The Economics of Friendship
  •  1  Friendship: Money Can't Buy It?
  •  2  Φιλια
  •  3  An Economic Mentality
  •  4  Apparatus and Argument
  • 2 Grace under Pressure: The Anatomy of χάρις
  •   The Argument
  •  1  Three Cases of Isomorphism
  •  2  χάρις and Successful Interaction
  •  3  Perception and /
  • méconnaissance
  •  4  Conflicts and Cynicism
  •  5  Concluding Remarks
  • 3 The Most Ancient of Obligations: The Nature of Filial Duty
  •  1  The Parent-Child Bond: A Paradigm-Case
  •  2  The Debtor Paradigm of Obligation
  •  3  The Gratitude Theory
  •  4  The Gratitude Theory Analysed
  •  5  Tensions in the Script: The Possibility of χάρις
  •  6  Concluding Remarks
  • 4 A Debtor Paradigm of Obligation: Principles of Moral Accounting
  •  1  Moral Bookkeeping
  •  2  Morality as Paying Debts
  •  3  Debts, Gifts and Morality
  •  4  Concluding Remarks: The Ledger under Taboo
  • 5 Pricing the Invaluable: Socrates and the Proper Use of Friends
  •   The Argument
  •  1  Framing Socratic Conversation
  •  2  False Friends, Part One: Utility, Ancient and Modern
  •  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
  • 6 Active Partnership: Socrates and the Art of Seduction
  •   The Argument
  •  1  Amazing Grace: Looking as a Reciprocal Endeavour
  •  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
  • 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.