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EGIDIA OCCHIPINTI

Philia and Utilitarianism in Plato and Xenophon

Abstract

This paper compares the nature of friendship according to Xenophon and Plato. Friendship is referred to a familiarity between someone who provides a benefit and another who receives it. It happens frequently that the benefactor is superior in means and also morally in comparison with the beneficiary. It is common advantage and utility which strengthen friendship.