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This is a recorded X/Twitter space where I discuss the importance of friendship in philosophy, which is to say friendship as a philosophical concept. 

Here I discuss the significance of friendship in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, which is to say his logos of happiness: the purpose of friendship as the foundation of politics, the good life, and the philosophical life.

In order to do that, I discussed the following philosophical texts in which friendship is of the highest philosophical significance, and in the following order:

(1) Xenophon: “Memorabilia”

(2) Nietzsche: “Human, All Too Human,” and “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”

(3) Plato: the “Laws”

(4) Aristotle: “Politics,” and “Nicomachean Ethics”