Eros, Philia and Community in Plato and Aristotle [Spanish]

Main Article Content

Tulio Alexander Benavides Franco

Abstract

Both in Plato and Aristotle, eros is questioned as a form of relationship with the other that brings us to a virtuous life and enable us to think about life in community. In Plato’s view, such a questioning would be in favor of a search for the Beauty that would offer a particular model of philia —that of philo-sofia—. In Aristotle’s view, the questioning of eros by individuals would be in favor of a model of philia —the virtuous philia— virtually restricted to an ideal level —because it is rare to find virtuous men—. In both cases, however, the way philia is being thought would, in a sense, provide an ideal model of community.

 

Article Details

Section

Articles

Author Biography

Tulio Alexander Benavides Franco, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brasil)

abenavida@gmail.com

Magíster en Filosofía de la Uni­versidad de los Andes (Bogotá). Doctorando del Programa de Pos­graduação em Educação de la Uni­versidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre). Líneas de inves­tigación: Estudios foucaultianos en Educación; Ética y Filosofía Políti­ca: alteridad y comunidad; Escuela, poder y subjetividades; Formación ciudadana y Educación para la Paz: subjetividad política, alteridad y co­munidad.

References

Bolotin, D. (1977). Plato's Dialogue on Friendship: An Interpretation of the Lysis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.


Brink, D. (1999). Eudaimonism, Love and Friendship, and Political Community. Social philosophy & Policy foundation, 16(1), 252-289. Doi: 10.1017/S0265052500002326


Foucault, M. (2006). Historia de la sexualidad II. El uso de los placeres. Madrid: Siglo XXI.


Guariglia, O. (1997). La ética en Aristóteles o la moral de la virtud. Buenos Aires: Eudeba.


Lledó Íñigo, E. (1985). Lisis. En Platón, Diálogos I, (pp. 273-316). Madrid: Gredos.


Martínez Hernández, M. (1988). Banquete. En Platón, Diálogos III (pp. 143-287). Madrid: Gredos.


Moravcsik, J. (1972). Reason and Eros in the "Ascent"- Passage in the Symposium. En J. Anton, y G. Kustas, (Eds.). Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy (pp. 285-302). Albany: State University of New York Press.


Nichols, M. (2006). Friendship and Community in Plato's "Lysis". The Review of Politics, 68(1), 1-19. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670506000027


Nussbaum, M. (1995). El discurso de Alcibíades: una interpretación del Banquete. En La fragilidad del bien (pp. 229-268). Madrid: La balsa de Medusa.

Obdrzalek, S. (2010). Moral Transformation and the Love of Beauty in Plato's Symposium. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 48(4), 415-44. Doi: 10.1353/hph.2010.0013


Pallí Bonet, J. (1998). (Trad.). Ética nicomáquea. En Aristóteles, Ética nicomáquea. Ética eudemia (pp. 131-408). Madrid: Gredos.


Price, A. (1999). Friendship and Politics. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 525-545. Recuperado de: http://www.tijdschriftvoorfilosofie.eu/inhoud/jg1999.html


Riegel, N. (2014). Goodness and Beauty in Plato. Archai, (12), 147-158. Doi: 10.14195/1984--249X_12_15


Salim, E. (2006). Embracing the Half: Aristotle's Revision of Platonic Eros and philia. Indonesia: Universitas Tarumanagara.


Sheffield, F. (2001): Alcibiades' Speech: A Satyric Drama. Greece & Rome, 48(2), 193-209. Recuperado de
https://www.jstor.org/stable/826920?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents


Sherman, N. (1987). Aristotle on Friendship and the Shared Life. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 47(4), 589-613. Recuperado de https://www.jstor.org/stable/2107230?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents


Smith, T. (1999). Aristotle on the Conditions for and Limits of the Common Good. The American Political Science Review, 93(3), 625-636. Doi: 10.2307/2585578


Vlastos, G. (1981). Platonic studies. Princeton: University Press.


Whiting, J. (1991). Impersonal Friends. Monist, 74(1), 3-29. Recuperado de: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27903221