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Nicomachean Ethics

Spotlight on Elan Barnehama and Friends

Elan Barnehama and Amy Lou Jenkins in a Conversation about Long-Term Friendships ALJ. When I read your wonderful essay “Showing Up,’ now published  in FRIENDS, I was struck by feelings of estrangement and, on the other hand, the comfort of friends. These two emotions seemed to be bantering throughout the essays. It felt familiar and …

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Considering Aristotle and Nicomachean Ethics on Friendship

Considering Aristotle and Nicomachean Ethics on Friendship Can friendships be sorted into one of three categories as Aristotle postulated?  Since we are still talking about what he had to say way back in 350 B.C.E., we are culturally bound to his analysis of  friendships.  Still, I think cultural mobility, the digital age, and the emphases …

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