Concord
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
concord · friendship between citizens · of one mind
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
A form of political friendship in which citizens agree on practical matters and pursue common resolves, contrasted with the discord of base men.
Concord appears therefore to mean friendship between citizens, which indeed is the ordinary use of the term;
The base on the other hand are incapable of concord, except in some small degree, as they are of friendship, since they try to get more than their share of advantages, and take less than their share of labors and public burdens.
Concord is said to prevail in a state, when the citizens agree as to their interests, adopt the same policy, and carry their common resolves into execution.
Orations
The central theme and personified ideal of unity and reconciliation between rival cities
I pray, then, to Dionysus the forefather of this city, and to Heracles its founder, and to Zeus Guardian of the City, and to Athena and Aphrodite Fosterer of Friendship, and to Concord and Nemesis and the other gods, that from this day forth they may cast upon this city longing for itself, and love, and a single mind, and the wish and the will for the same things, and may cast out faction and stri …
For this is what to this day sets you at enmity with one another and does not allow friendship to arise — the conviction, held without reason, that concord between the cities is not possible.
Panathenaicus
Social unity that can be beneficial or destructive depending on how it is used.
However, I said this, not with any thought of reverence or justice or wisdom—the virtues which you mentioned —but having in mind the athletic practices which have been instituted among them, their training in courage, their spirit of concord, and, in a word, their discipline for war.
So that no one could justly praise them because of their concord, any more than one could praise pirates or brigands or men given to other forms of injustice.
Well, the result was that the Hellenes found it easier to obtain subsistence and enjoyed a greater degree of concord after they had been relieved of so great a number of the class of people which I have described;