The HBS hosts discuss how friendships are forged, maintained, and sometimes broken.

In The Politics of Friendship, Jacques Derrida invokes a statement originally attributed to Aristotle: “My Friends, there are no friends," capturing something that seems to be fundamental about friendship. Friendship is essential to human thriving, but also difficult, if not impossible, to attain and maintain. 

We make all sorts of fine distinctions between friends, "best" friends, acquaintances, colleagues or "work" friends, etc. But what makes someone that you know a "friend" vs. an acquaintance or a colleague? Is that a permanent condition? What do we owe to a friend, and what do they ow us? Is there a political dimension to friendship? 

This week, friends of the podcast, we're talking about friendship: how it's forged, how it is nurtured and sustained, and how it is broken.

Full episode notes at this link:
https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-139-friendship

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