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Full Idea
'Eris' is the Greek divinity of discord, conflict, and strife, the complementary opposite of Philia, the divinity of union and friendship.
Gist of Idea
'Eris' is the divinity of conflict, the opposite of Philia, the god of friendship
Source
G Deleuze / F Guattari (What is Philosophy? [1991], 1.2 n)
Book Ref
Deleuze/Guattari: 'What is Philosophy?' [Verso 1994], p.43
A Reaction
Are these actual gods? This interestingly implies that the wonders of dialectic and Socrates' elenchus are simply aspects of friendship, which was elevated by Epicurus to the highest good. The Greeks just wanted wonderful friends and fine speeches.
| 2130 | People often merely practice eristic instead of dialectic, because they don't analyse the subject-matter [Plato] |
| 2052 | Eristic discussion is aggressive, but dialectic aims to help one's companions in discussion [Plato] |
| 2674 | Competitive argument aims at refutation, fallacy, paradox, solecism or repetition [Aristotle] |
| 7284 | If you beat me in argument, does that mean you are right? [Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)] |
| 2556 | Rational certainty may be victory in argument rather than knowledge of facts [Rorty] |
| 8224 | 'Eris' is the divinity of conflict, the opposite of Philia, the god of friendship [Deleuze/Guattari] |