"Friendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due. Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers on the subject and collected them into a handsome and handy volume. . . . A splendid book!" —M. M. Wartofsky, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, City University of New York
"Friendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due. Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers on the subject and collected them into a handsome and handy volume. . . . A splendid book!" —M. M. Wartofsky, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, City University of New York
Contents:
Editor’s Introduction
Plato, Lysis. Translated by Stanley Lombardo
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Books VIII and IX), Rhetoric (II.4). Translated by Terence Irwin
Cicero, “On Friendship” (De Amicitia). Translated by Frank Copley
Seneca, “On Philosophy and Friendship” and “On Grief for Lost Friends.” Translated by R. M. Gummere
Aelred of Rievaulx, “Spiritual Friendship” (De Spiritali Amicitia, Book 1) Translated by Eugenia Laker, S.S.N.D.
Thomas Aquinas, Questions on Love and Charity (from Summa Theologiae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Montaigne, “Of Friendship.” Translated by Donald M. Frame
Francis Bacon, “Of Friendship”
Immanuel Kant, Lecture on Friendship. Translated by Louis Infield
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship”
Soren Kierkegaard, “You Shall Love Your Neighbor” (from Works of Love) Translated by Howard and Edna Hong