Aristotle on Love and Friendship
Aristotle on Love and Friendship
Author(s): David KonstanSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Новосибирский государственный университет
Keywords: Ancient ethics; relationship; philia; friend; debt; free-giving; mutual obligation; love
Summary/Abstract: David Konstan (Brown University, Providence) argues that the term philia, in Aristotle, represents an elective, affective relationship, and not, as many scholars have maintained, a relation of mutual obligation, like that of kinship, with no necessary affective element; in addition, he disambiguates two senses of philia, one corresponding to “love”, the other designating the reciprocal affection characteristic of friendship.
Journal: ΣΧΟΛΗ. Философское антиковедение и классическая традиция
- Issue Year: II/2008
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 207-212
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English