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

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

Keywords:

Eros, philia, community, beauty, virtuous life

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.

 

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.

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2018-12-03

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No. 30 (2019): January-june

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