Virtud y reconocimiento: G.W.F. Hegel sobre la amistad

Abstract

In contrast to Aristotle, Hegel devotes to friendship only a few passages along his works. In those fragments, friendship is portrayed as a type of relationship based exclusively on the feeling and the will of the individual. As a consequence, it is excluded from the ethical sphere, since it lacks an institutional structure and depends wholly upon particular opinion. Nevertheless, Hegel acknowledges that friendship represents a genuine and valuable realization of freedom, insofar as it implies a mutual recognition that allows each subject to be-with-herself-in-another.