“L’amico è un altro se stesso”: amicizia, conoscenza di sé, conoscenza dell’altro in Omero e Aristotele
“The friend is another self”: Friendship, Self-knowledge, Knowing the Other in Homer and Aristotle
Author(s): Giuseppe FeolaSubject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Ancient World, Greek Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: friendship; Aristotle; Homer; Iliad; self-knowledge; Nicomachean Ethics;
Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses Homer’s narrative about the friendship between Achilles and Patroklos in order to shed some light – with the aid of the tools of philosophical historiography and philology – on Aristotle’s account of friendship. Both by Homer and by Aristotle, friendship is described as an act of self-knowledge which is necessary to human beings insofar as they are unable to attain self-knowledge in a non-relational way. Some considerations are finally drawn about some themes in modern scientific thought that seem to point to a possibility of a modern reusage of Aristotle’s account of friendship.
Journal: Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 29
- Page Range: 37-51
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Italian