Review

Politics of Love From Plato to Tusi

Number: 8 January 18, 2018
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Politics of Love From Plato to Tusi

Abstract

As it is the case in many areas, we frequently encounter many impasses and knots of

problems in the area of politics as well. It is a fact that every attempt to untie the knots leads

to breaks from the subject and insufficient justifications. The concept of love or friendship

continues to be one of these main problematical subjects in politics from Antiquity till today.

We observe that the term ‘love’ which come to the forein three main categories, friendly

love (philia), passionate love (eros) and divine love (agape) over time is founded conceptually

in Ancient Greece at first. The concept’s path to Islamic world via Neo-platonism can

be traced into two veins: the first one is love conceived as an ontological principle and the

second one is friendly love or friendship elaborated as a political principle. In the former

we can trace the concept of eros by starting from itssublimation to ideas of beauty-goodand

God in Plato, enterIslamic philosophers’ ontological theory of emanation through its transformation

into an ontological and mystical structure in Plotinus andfinally we can reach

the “divine love” of mystics and poets particularly. The latter is the path of “political love”

based on the Aristotle’s establishment of philia (friendship) as a political category and can

be traced through IbnMiskawayh and Tusi.

In this paper our aim is to analyze what exactly the political aspect of the concept of

love which is formed by Plato and Aristotle and which is made an inseparable part of the

tradition of Islamic political philosophy through the ideas Farabi means, how love, politics

and justice is related; in other words, how the concept of love is established as a political category.

Thus, we try to analyze to what extent the attempt called “politics of love and peace”

can be considered to be successful and consistent.

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

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Journal Section

Review

Publication Date

January 18, 2018

Submission Date

November 30, 2017

Acceptance Date

December 26, 2017

Published in Issue

Year 2018 Number: 8

Chicago
Çilingir, Lokman. 2018. “Platon’dan Tusi’ye Sevgi Siyaseti”. Temaşa Erciyes Üniversitesi Felsefe Bölümü Dergisi, nos. 8: 73-96. https://izlik.org/JA63KM56AM.