By the philosopher's standards, chatbots may be able to provide information or engage in conversation — but they can’t be a ...

Aristotle thought deeply about friendship. I am, of course, aware that this statement seems as astonishing as declaring that the sun rose this morning. After all, St. Thomas Aquinas refers to ...

Menander Plato and Aristotle both gave an important place to friendship in the good life: Plato devoted three books to friendship and to love (the Lysis, the Phædrus, and the Symposium), and in ...

After what we have said, a discussion of friendship would naturally follow, since it is a virtue or implies virtue, and is besides most necessary with a view to living. For without friends no one ...

More important than spouses, kids or money In his philosophical text Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle maintained that true friendship is essential for “eudaimonia,” a Greek word that is typically ...

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Friendship is notoriously difficult to define. For Aristotle, friendship, or philia, is a virtue which is "most necessary with a view to living … for without friends no one would choose to live ...

They can be complicated and messy, but a good friendship is worth it, since, as Aristotle said, "without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." Mark Zuckerberg has a ...

In his philosophical text Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle maintained that true friendship is essential for “eudaimonia,” a Greek word that is typically translated as “flourishing” or “well ...