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Who are the political friends? Homonoia and political friendship in Aristotle’s political thinking

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Philosophy.
dc.contributor.advisor Sidiropoulou, Chryssi.
dc.contributor.author Hepçağlayan, Cansu.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T11:54:57Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T11:54:57Z
dc.date.issued 2017.
dc.identifier.other PHIL 2017 H47
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16125
dc.description.abstract The notion of political friendship holds a unique institutional function in Aristotle’s political philosophy. He considers political friendship, as a specific account of friendship between citizens of the polis, as an indispensible component of a functioning state. In my dissertation, I aim to provide an extensive analysis of the notion of political friendship in Aristotle’s political thinking, by establishing its proper position in Aristotle’s teleological understanding of politics and his theory of friendship. In the first part, I examine three political notions, which are eudaimonia, common good, and political justice, together with political friendship, and investigate the reciprocal relationships between these concepts. I argue that in Aristotle’s view, these four political goods, which clearly affect one another, contribute to good lives of the citizens of the polis constitutively. In the second part, I investigate the position of political friendship in Aristotle’s friendship theory. I examine the characteristics of different kinds of friendships and determine the proper place of political friendship in this framework. I argue that political friendship cannot be considered merely as friendship of utility, because it requires the virtue of acting according to the common good, even if it conflicts with one’s temporary personal interests. Finally, I discussed the necessary practical conditions that a society must sustain in order to provide political friendship between its citizens.
dc.format.extent 30 cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017.
dc.subject.lcsh Society of Friends -- Political activity
dc.subject.lcsh Oaths -- Society of Friends
dc.title Who are the political friends? Homonoia and political friendship in Aristotle’s political thinking
dc.format.pages viii, 55 leaves ;


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