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The form of politics : Aristotle and Plato on friendship / John von Heyking.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 066Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xv, 233 pagine ; 23 cmContent type:
  • testo (txt)
Media type:
  • senza mediazione (n)
Carrier type:
  • volume (nc)
ISBN:
  • 9780773547551
  • 077354755X
  • 9780773547568
  • 0773547568
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01 23
Other classification:
  • JA 71.H49 2016
Contents:
Introduction: Friendship is the form of politics -- Sunaisthetic friendship: the "most intense and best" love -- Political friendship as storytelling, practical wisdom through mimesis -- Hermes as Eros in Plato's Lysis -- Evoking friendship as the form of politics in Plato's Laws -- Political friendship as learning to dance together -- "The argument is singing to us now": founders' friendship and cosmic friendship in Plato's Laws -- Conclusion: Dwelling together.

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Introduction: Friendship is the form of politics -- Sunaisthetic friendship: the "most intense and best" love -- Political friendship as storytelling, practical wisdom through mimesis -- Hermes as Eros in Plato's Lysis -- Evoking friendship as the form of politics in Plato's Laws -- Political friendship as learning to dance together -- "The argument is singing to us now": founders' friendship and cosmic friendship in Plato's Laws -- Conclusion: Dwelling together.