Politics of Love From Plato to Tusi

As it is the case in many areas, we frequently encounter many impasses and knots of problems in the area of politics as well. It is a fact that every attempt to untie the knots leads to breaks from the subject and insufficient justifications. The concept of love or friendship continues to be one of these main problematical subjects in politics from Antiquity till today. We observe that the term ‘love’ which come to the forein three main categories, friendly love (philia), passionate love (eros) and divine love (agape) over time is founded conceptually in Ancient Greece at first. The concept’s path to Islamic world via Neo-platonism can be traced into two veins: the first one is love conceived as an ontological principle and the second one is friendly love or friendship elaborated as a political principle. In the former we can trace the concept of eros by starting from itssublimation to ideas of beauty-goodand God in Plato, enterIslamic philosophers’ ontological theory of emanation through its transformation into an ontological and mystical structure in Plotinus andfinally we can reach the “divine love” of mystics and poets particularly. The latter is the path of “political love” based on the Aristotle’s establishment of philia (friendship) as a political category and can be traced through IbnMiskawayh and Tusi. In this paper our aim is to analyze what exactly the political aspect of the concept of love which is formed by Plato and Aristotle and which is made an inseparable part of the tradition of Islamic political philosophy through the ideas Farabi means, how love, politics and justice is related; in other words, how the concept of love is established as a political category. Thus, we try to analyze to what extent the attempt called “politics of love and peace” can be considered to be successful and consistent