Spiritual Friendship and the Redemptive Vision of "Fratelli Tutti"

Posted by Gregory Floyd on Oct 20, 2020 7:02:00 AM

One of the oldest reflections on friendship is Plato’s Lysis in which Socrates suggests that a friend “somehow belong[s] to his beloved either in his soul or in some characteristic, habit, or aspect of his soul.”[1] Developing this intuition, Aristotle, later argued that in a perfect friendship, friends must “live together,”[2] by sharing deeply in one another’s inner life, famously describing such a friend as “another self.”[3] True friends are those whose hearts and minds pursue the same thing—goodness for Plato and virtue for Aristotle.

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Topics: Pope Francis, friendship, Fratelli Tutti

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