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Caters for the growing philosophical interest in virtue and personal relationships Draws on dozens of primary sources, many of them unavailable in translation Accessible to the non-specialist: no previous knowledge of Aquinas requiredDaniel Schwartz examines the views on friendship of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas friendship is the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Schwartz argues that Aquinas fundamentally revises some of the main features of Aristotle's paradigmatic account of friendship so as to accommodate the case of friendship between radically unequal beings: man and God. As a result, Aquinas presents a broader view of friendship than Aristotle's, allowing for a higher extent of disagreement. lack of mutual understanding, and inequality between friends.Readership: Students and scholars of philosophy, especially medieval philosophy; theologians; historians