On Friendship
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On Friendship
By Alexander NehamasWhat is it about the nature of friendship that proves so elusive? In On Friendship, the acclaimed philosopher Alexander Nehamas launches an original and far-ranging investigation of friendship.
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On Friendship
By Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne was the originator of the modern essay form; in these diverse pieces he expresses his views on friendship, contemplates the idea that man is no different from any animal, argues that all cultures should be respected, and ...
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On Friendship
By Alexander Nehamas“A ship is like a lady's watch”: Rod Scher, ann., in Richard Henry Dana's The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast (Lanham, MD: Sheridan Press, 2013), p. 17. “The over-reading of metaphors”: The reference is to William Empson, ...
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On Friendship
By Ray PahlRay Pahl explores these issues as well as discussing who needs friends most and when, how friends make us the people that we are and whether friendship is a new metaphor for morality.
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On Friendship
By Matteo Ricci... friendship unnervingly echoed that of Ouyang Xiu's 1044 essay on factions, in which the idea of tongxin 同心(common heart-and-mind) applies to both friends and political allies.80 Norman Kutcher has demonstrated that ideas about friendship ...