Language, Friendship, and Communion: Eastern and Western Perspectives
What we share as human beings are the unique ability for language and the capacity for friendship. These are like windows opening us up to our essential…
Desire, Distraction and Dialectic
I have a woman friend whose mother hated her in the womb. Surely an exaggeration! — you may protest. Well, I met the lady only once, but…
Christian Faith and Friendship in the Academy
I thank the organizers for inviting me to discuss our theme, how Christian faith can inform friendships in the academy. As I begin, I would invite all…
The Politics of Friendship
I have a woman friend who’s been in my life over long stretches of time, interrupted by sharp breaks in the friendship – one break from me…
Churchill and the Athens-Jerusalem Conflict Over Friendship
I want to commend Professor John von Heyking for writing a truly refreshing and original analysis of Churchill’s understanding and practice of friendship as the “key to…
The Friendship and Politics Symposium
Thanks to Steven F. McGuire for organizing the symposium on John von Heyking's book, The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship! Please see the features…
“The Delicate Shimmer of Interlaced Rainbows”: Sunaisthesis, Homophrosynê and a Reply to My Friends
I thank Steven McGuire for organizing this symposium and Lee Trepanier for publishing it here on Voegelinview. Away from the friendships unfriendly that dominate the internet and…
Aristotle and Plato on Friendship
In The Form of Politics, John von Heyking directs his readers to the critical importance of friendship in the political thought of Aristotle and Plato. The title…
The Form of Politics as Friendship
I’d like to take a road trip with John von Heyking. I don’t know if he and I could ever achieve that rare gem which is friendship,…
Contemplating Friendship
John von Heyking’s analysis of friendship in The Form of Politics centers on the Greek concept of sunaisthesis, the triangle of perception and recognition that occurs when…
Friendship and “Filthy” Politics in Plato and Aristotle
The Italian philosopher and statesman, Benedetto Croce, once wrote that, “politics and filth are so frequently identified in the ordinary conversation of people that the thoughtful person…
Eric Voegelin and Alfred Schütz
A Friendship That Lasted a Lifetime: The Correspondence Between Alfred Schütz and Eric Voegelin. Gerhard Wagner and Gilbert Weiss, eds, and William Petropulos, trans. Columbia, MO: University…