Mark Zuckerberg says AI chatbots could help people combat loneliness. Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, would likely disagree.

For Aristotle, friends are not just nice to ... feel a sense of security and share their accomplishments. Empirical evidence seems to support the connection between friendship and eudaimonia.

It is part of a passage in which Durant helps to elucidate a concept first outlined in Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics." Durant wrote the quote, not Aristotle. For years, the alleged words of ...

For Aristotle, friends are not just nice to ... feel a sense of security and share their accomplishments. And a meta-analysis of nearly 150 studies found that a lack of close friends can increase ...