Imagine being so important that historians would divide periods of time according to your name. Everything before you were born was just “prehistory”; the really important events don’t get started until your life begins. Our way of talking about history awards this honor to very few people. Off the top of my head I can […]
The Search for First Principles Read More »
Friendship is inherently valuable, indeed one of the most valuable things in life. For this reason, Aristotle said that, “No one would choose to live a friendless existence, even on the condition of having all other good things.” If we better understand what friendship is, then we might better understand how to build new and
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Affection seems like a feeling, but friendship seems like an active condition. For affection is no less present for inanimate things, but loving in return involves choice, and choice comes from an active condition. And people wish for good things for those they love for those others’ own sake, not as a result of feeling
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