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Civic Friendship, Affiliation and Common Good

Question we try to answer in this paper is the following: what is an appropriate account of civic bonds or civic relation in modern plural liberal societies? The answer we would like to offer is - civic friendship. But what is an appropriate account of civic friendship in societies of diverse and incompatible comprehensive doctrines and conceptions of good? Is it appropriate to explain the relationship between so heterogenous individuals in terms of friendship? Here we propose a reading of Aristotelian civic friendship that is compatible with liberal framework, that however keeps Aristotle’s notions of mutual well- wishing and common good. In our view this can be done within Nussbaum’s version of capability approach where she gives a list of central capabilities. We particularly focus on her capability for affiliation.

civic friendship, liberalism, Aristotle, capability approach, affiliation

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