A barátság érzése tartja össze az államot?
Does the Feeling of Friendship Keep the State Together?

Summary/Abstract: In the fi rst part of our paper we analyse the philia notion, its indispensable role in semantics and in the life of the ancient Greek society, as it were, in its political life about which Aristotle wrote, „friendship seems too to hold states together”. In the second part, we examine the „replacement” of the ancient philia notion in the light of Carl Schmitt’s friend-foe distinction as a political criterion. Here we analyse the Aristotelian statement in a question form. Our paper will follow the question thread, what accounts for the fact that the „political” sense of the friendship notion present in the Classical Age has undergone such drastic change(s)? Did Schmitt replace the friend (philos) notion by its opposite, foe (der Feind) to destroy the real bases of the social and political relationships in the middle of the 20th century in order to make „concrete” to „keep together” the political life / community?

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