Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.31337/oz.81.2.1

Aristotle’s Civic Friendship: The Ethical Foundations of Political Cohesion

Ana Gavran Miloš orcid.org/0000-0002-7142-069X ; Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska *

* Corresponding author.

Abstract

This paper examines Aristotle’s concept of civic friendship (politikē philia) as a
normative framework for addressing key issues in contemporary societies, including
distrust, polarization and political fragmentation. It analyzes the nature of
civic friendship and its central features with a particular focus on civic eunoia,
motivated goodwill grounded in shared vulnerability, and homonoia, the political
concord necessary for sustaining communal life.

Keywords

civic friendship; eunoia; homonoia; eudaimonia; vulnerability; political polarization

Hrčak ID:

345891

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/345891

Publication date:

7.4.2026.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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