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The Importance of Friendship in the Construction of Positive Nations

Lía Rodríguez De La VegaGraciela TononGraciela Tonon

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Value (ethics)Friendshipmedia_common.quotation_subjectFlourishingPolitical scienceSimilarity (psychology)Gender studiesSocial bondSocial psychologymedia_common

description

This chapter is written by two Argentineans, Graciela Tonon and Lia Rodriguez de la Vega, and brings interesting data from their own studies regarding friendship as relational glue for a positive nation. Departing from the results gathered, where friendship emerged as the variable ranked with the highest value for the people interviewed, they define the concept and its typologies and connect it with the idea of a positive nation, with Martin Seligman’s flourishing model, and, finally, with Aristotle’s idea of friendship as community. Alongside the chapter, we can understand, through the testimonies and words of the interviewed, the dynamic perspectives regarding friendship as an instrument for self-construction, where mechanisms of proximity and similarity intervene and evoke a founding for participation and collective construction.

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2013-06-21
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6869-7_4