Cicero · Politics
Cicero’s two beloved late dialogues - On Old Age and On Friendship - and their humane wisdom about how to grow old well and what makes a true friend.
You learned Cicero’s teaching that true friendship rests on virtue and is loved for its own sake. Three centuries earlier, Aristotle had given the classic analysis of friendship, distinguishing its kinds. State how Aristotle’s account frames the highest friendship.
Leads to Aristotle.
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