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- Title
POLITICS AND THE PERFECTION OF FRIENDSHIP: ARISTOTELIAN REFLECTIONS.
- Authors
BARACCH, CLAUDIA
- Abstract
Aristotle's discussion of friendship provides an inclusive analysis that, along with common everyday understanding, tries to take into account approaches as different as that of the sophists and Plato's meditation on this theme. The present essay examines the complexity of the phenomenon of friendship —especially the difficult intersection of friendship as loving intimacy between excellent individuals (teleia philia) and friendship as a genuinely political bond. Above all, it attempts to cast light on the political relevance of perfect friendship. Thus understood, friendship is disclosed as the end or destination of politics and may even presage the self-overcoming of politics as mere legality. This opens the way for an understanding of political finality as no mere expediency (in fact, as nothing less than communal thriving) and for thinking the political on the basis of pathos and singularity.
- Subjects
POLITICAL science; FRIENDSHIP; ARISTOTLE, 384-322 B.C.; ETHICS; JUSTICE
- Publication
Universitas Philosophica, 2009, Vol 26, Issue 53, p15
- ISSN
0120-5323
- Publication type
Article