
Mark Vernon on Friendship
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The Philosophy of Friendship
Aristotle said a good life, the happy life, is inconceivable without friendship. I so philosophye sare at all interested in life, then i think friendship must get back on to the genda. Do you think that friendship is incompatible with sexual attraction or sexual involvement? The quick answer is no, inasmuch as people certainly aspire to be friends with their partners, with their lovers. But there are tensions. A common experience, perhaps, illuminates that lovers hate to be apart, whereas friends would never think twice really, about being apart.
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