Friendship Beyond Reason

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ID3971460
AuthorsMichael S Kochin (0000-0001-5934-7242, School of Political Science, Government, and International Relations, Tel Aviv University 6997801, Israel, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume28
Issue8
Pages807-821
Publication date2023-11-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe European Legacy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10848770.2023.2251233
OpenAlexW4386373210
LanguageEN
References cited19

The ancient philosophers aimed to turn us away from thinking about particularizing affection to thinking about justifiable human relations. The aim of their protreptic discourses was to get their readers, who were citizens, sons, and fathers, to think about their lives by putting these relations into question. I show how this conversion works and explore its political consequences by reading the accounts of friendship in Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, and then comparing those accounts with the views on the causes and justifications of human relations of Rousseau, of Christians and post-Christian Kantians, and of the Hebrew Bible and its Rabbinic commentators

Affection · Art · Cicero · Epistemology · Friendship · Hebrew · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Reflexive pronoun · Social science · Sociology · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy

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