Published: 2023-12-23

“The friend is another self”: Friendship, Self-knowledge, Knowing the Other in Homer and Aristotle

Giuseppe Feola
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.8881

Abstract

The paper analyses Homer’s narrative about the friendship between Achilles and Patroklos in order to shed some light – with the aid of the tools of philosophical historiography and philology – on Aristotle’s account of friendship. Both by Homer and by Aristotle, friendship is described as an act of self-knowledge which is necessary to human beings insofar as they are unable to attain self-knowledge in a non-relational way. Some considerations are finally drawn about some themes in modern scientific thought that seem to point to a possibility of a modern reusage of Aristotle’s account of friendship

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friendship, Ar

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Feola, G. (2023). “The friend is another self”: Friendship, Self-knowledge, Knowing the Other in Homer and Aristotle. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (29), 37–51. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.8881

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