This book offers a comprehensive account of the major philosophical works on friendship and its relationship to self-love. The book gives central place to Arist

Examines how Aristotle posits political philosophy and the experience of friendship as a means to bind strictly intellectural virtue with morality. In this book

Applies Aristotle's argument - that citizenship is like friendship - to the liberal and democratic societies of the present day.

An eminent philosopher reflects on the nature of friendship, past and present Friends are a constant feature of our lives, yet friendship itself is difficult to