Between Friendship and Justice: On Lincoln's Political Thought

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dc.contributor.authorField, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-11T01:15:10Z
dc.date.available2024-11-11T01:15:10Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractReading Aristotle and applying his notion of philia, or political friendship, across 26 centuries sheds significant light into Abraham Lincoln’s career. It is precisely in Lincoln’s embodiment of the Aristotelian notion of friendship that we come to understand his unique greatness. Perhaps he alone of all Americans proved capable of such extraordinary feats as leading the Republican party to victory in 1860, holding the Union together through the secession crisis and four long years of bloody civil war, ending slavery without white backlash, and offering reconciliation with the incredible magnanimity expressed in the ringing phrases of the Second Inaugural address. The basis of Lincoln’s preternatural political genius proved to be his ability to comprehend all sides, a comprehension that can only come from a profound belief in the importance of friendship. Americans, Lincoln argued throughout a terrible war as he had his entire life, were not enemies but friends who shared a commitment to nature and nature’s law as expressed in the Declaration.
dc.identifier.citationField PS (2017). Between Friendship and Justice: On Lincoln's Political Thought. American Nineteenth Century History. 18(2). 87-105.
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1080/14664658.2017.1327235
dc.identifier.issn1743-7903
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/107508
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInforma UK Limited
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stated
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651
dc.subjectLincoln
dc.subjectAristotle
dc.subjectpolitical friendship
dc.subjectabolitionists
dc.subject.anzsrc43 - History, heritage and archaeology::4303 - Historical studies::430321 - North American history
dc.subject.anzsrc44 - Human society::4408 - Political science::440811 - Political theory and political philosophy
dc.subject.anzsrc50 - Philosophy and religious studies::5002 - History and philosophy of specific fields::500202 - History and philosophy of law and justice
dc.subject.anzsrc50 - Philosophy and religious studies::5002 - History and philosophy of specific fields::500207 - History of ideas
dc.titleBetween Friendship and Justice: On Lincoln's Political Thought
dc.typeJournal Article
uc.collegeFaculty of Arts
uc.departmentHumanities
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