Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought

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353 agape, 49, 140, 144, 145, 147, 151, 155, 156 Alcibiades, 21, 33 Anti-Federalists, 250–54 anxiety, 21, 72, 123, 209 Aquinas, St. Thomas, 5, 6, 7, 9, 185–86, 187, 328 on Aristotle, 146–49, 156n7, 157n8 on civic friendship, 153–55 friendship with enemies, 149–50 friendship with God, 148, 154, 156 on political authority, 151, 153, 154 Arendt, Hannah, 14, 73–75, 78n16, 117–18, 120, 121, 131, 284n36, 335–41 arête. See virtue aristocracy, 71, 216, 252, 270, 271 Aristotle, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12–15, 22, 27, 44, 50n13, 84, 91, 127, 140, 141–42, 143, 146–49, 153, 156n7, 158n28, 163, 164, 169–72, 174, 183, 186, 187, 197, 209, 211, 217, 218, 262, 268–69, 272, 278, 279, 280, 316, 321, 328, 336, 337, 338–39, 341 and endoxa (widespread opinions), 54–55, 63, 71, 72 and epieikeia (equity), 59, 68, 69 homonoia (civic concord), 170, 338 Nicomachean Ethics, 58–61, 141–42 on the phronimos (practically wise person), 58, 336 on pleonexia (greed), 65, 66, 70 prohairesis (thoughtful choice), 54–55, 58, 59, 61, 78n14, 78n17 —on the prohairetic life, 63–70 Index 060 index (353-358) 3/20/08 12:55 PM Page 353 Aristotle (cont.) and the spoudaios (the serious person), 67 style and substance, 56–63 on teleology, 57 on thumos (spiritedness), 55 association, 10, 96, 99, 165, 177, 184, 208–11, 216, 227–34, 236, 240, 262, 263, 277, 282n17, 283n30, 325 Augustine, 5, 7, 8, 9, 15, 101, 145, 150, 152, 164, 171, 185 against cyclical theories of time, 294–96 on analogical method, 116 Confessions, 122–25 conversation as friendship, 118, 119, 124, 126–31 conversion, 123 eros and friendship, 126, 128 on justice, 130 On the Trinity, 125–32 and populus (political community), 120, 121, 129 on unrolling (evolvi) as friendship, 116, 128–29, 132 Basil, 145 benevolence, 147, 160n40, 183, 241 Calvin, John, 5, 6, 9 concord as friendship, 177 on discipline, 186 on government, 184 on virtue, 181–83 caritas, 6, 7, 9, 98, 99, 101, 109n30, 158n27 charity, 11, 142, 178, 179, 223, 240, 241 Christ, 127, 143, 148, 158n27, 175, 176, 180, 182, 183, 187, 217, 229, 295, 296, 331, 340. See also Jesus Chrysostom, John, 145 Cicero, 115–17, 119, 120, 122, 133, 143, 171, 185, 289, 328 consensio (agreement), 94 De Amicitia, 122 —affinities with De Re Publica, 86–89 —setting of, 87–88 —suppression of Greek in, 90–91 De Re Publica —affinities with Amicitia, 86–89 —differences with Amicitia, 89– 92 —history of, 85 —setting of, 87–88 and imbecillitas (weakness), 95 and pirates, 119 and sapientia (wisdom), 94 Scipio’s Dream, 88–89, 105 and the Stoics, 91, 97, 99–100, 103, 107n16 civil society, 4, 80n26, 223, 225, 239, 248, 337 common sense, 14, 35, 36, 333–34, 336, 340, 342. See also sensus communis compassion, 4, 6, 223, 225, 240. See also pity conversation, 27, 46, 57, 69, 71–75, 86, 86, 93, 118, 119, 124, 126–31 Declaration of Independence, 249 democracy, 2, 4, 5, 12, 13, 14, 21, 26, 71, 72, 133, 134, 143, 169, 228, 235, 258, 318–22, 324–27, 334, 335, 336, 338, 340, 341, 342 Derrida, Jacques, 6, 44, 72, 288, 304–6, 314n61, 341–42 354 T Index 060 index (353-358) 3/20/08 12:55 PM Page 354 Descartes, Rene, 275 Dickinson, John, 257 Dion of Syracuse, 48 Diongenes Laertius, 72 dishonor, 55, 166, 217. See also honor dogs, as best friends, 3, 98, 315 domestic walls, 250–51 endoxa, 54–55, 63, 71, 72 enemy (and enemies), 6, 15, 82n42, 98, 120, 140, 149–50, 162n61, 183, 202, 215, 217–26, 229, 231–34, 237–38, 240, 244n4, 247n26, 245n11, 315, 317, 326, 341 Epic of Gilgamesh, 165–66, 168, 185 Epicureans, 95, 100–101, 110n31 equality, 12, 13, 63, 72, 133, 143, 144, 147, 148, 156n7, 166, 187, 189n10, 228, 266, 270, 272, 275–78, 280, 303, 338. See also inequality equity, 59, 68, 179, 231, 239, 240 erastes (lover), 26, 44–46, 52n29 eromenos (lover), 44–46, 52n29, 82n43 factions, 12, 21, 74, 103, 105, 127, 218, 234–35, 237–38, 258 265n31, 332 family, 54, 56, 63, 64, 69, 71, 75n1, 76n2, 80n26, 85, 98, 109n28, 143, 168, 183, 223, 233, 234, 236, 243, 250, 257, 258, 282n19, 323, 338, 341 Federalists, 254–60 322, 324...