Epicurus and the Theme of Friendship: philía in Reference to the Legislating êthos of the pólis and the agápê of Christian Virtue
Keywords:
Friendship, justice, reciprocity, virtueAbstract
This article deals with the central theme of the ethical doctrine of Epicurus:friendship. It is analyzed here under two headings, complementary to each other,and containing the terms for what we now call the doctrine of law and the doctrineof virtue. In the former, the article questions the links between law, justice, andfriendship as conceived by Epicurus; in the latter, it questions how he managed toconceive friendship relations, using the Greek terms for philía, in ways that are veryclose to the so called golden rule of prudential Christian ethics.
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