THE CONCEPT FRIENDSHIP VIEWED BY ANCIENT AND RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHERS

Abstract

The article considers the concept friendship
in views of philosophers of Antiquity and Renaissance. The
concept friendship is studied in the works by Ancient Greek
philosophers (Aristotle, Plato, Diogenes Laertius, Seneca,
Cicero and Plutarch) in comparison with such Eastern thinkers
as Аbu Nasr Farabi, Al-Khorezmi, Ibn-Sina, Kaikovus,
Ahmad Jugnaki, Alisher Navoi and others. Mental values of
the concept friendship and its history of transformation into
a special subject are considered. The author concludes that
the concept friendship was considered as a type of positive
communication between people in ancient philosophy and
this idea was consequently developed in the views of Renaissance
philosophers.