The Politics of Friendship and Good Government

This research addresses one of the key concepts in social psychology and sociology, namely friendship, and draws it into the field of political thought. Because believes that the founda- tion of social unity is politics of friendship, Unity which is also considered by various polit- ical thinkers. In political thought, politics of friendship is necessary for any political action, because politics is not the cause of contradiction of interests, but a part of human social life for achieving well-being and prosperity through social solidarity, which ultimately ends up in a good government. But the question is: how politics of friendship in the sphere and his- tory of political thought leads to a good government? Or, in other words, what is the relation between politics of friendship and good government? The present article, in answer to the above question, suggests that, in political thought, friendship brings a path to self-centrism and ethnocentrism, and leading to something called "politics of friendship", which is equal to the rule of law; In that friendship between humans, the emergence of security, the inter- dependence between them, along with the existence of the element of justice is one of the main elements. We intend to examine it through a descriptive-analytical method and relying on the approach of the history of political thought.