MQUP Author John von Heyking, Delivers Keynote Address at VIU

The Liberal Studies department at Vancouver Island University (VIU) hosts a conference each year for their students to which a guest speaker is invited to deliver a keynote address. This year the speaker was professor and author John von Heyking from the University of Lethbridge, speaking on the topic of political friendship, a theme that is frequently discuss in the Liberal Studies classes at VIU.

John von Heyking is the author of the soon to be released MQUP title The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship.

View a video of the keynote presentation “Friendship, The Form of Politics“, courtesy of VIU’s Liberal Studies department.

The Form of Politics
Aristotle and Plato on Friendship

By John von Heyking

A study of Aristotle’s and Plato’s interpretations of friendship and their significance for political life.

For statesmen, friendship is the lingua franca of politics. Considering the connections between personal and political friendship, John von Heyking’s The Form of Politics interprets the texts of Plato and Aristotle and emphasizes the role that friendship has in enduring philosophical and contemporary political contexts. Read more>