The ideal and pursuit of friendship held great fascination for ancient Greek thinkers and artists as diverse as Aristotle and Epicurus, Homer and Sappho. Yet friendship has received little philosophical attention since the time of the ancients. The topic is much broader than I can pursue in a short essay, but I would like to explore several aspects of friendship that have impressed themselves on me through my own experience and reflection. I happen to meet.
Friendship is a matter of connecting at a deeper and more personal level than that.
One is fortunate if one finds half a dozen really good friends with whom one has a deep affinity. Indeed, there are so many ways not to connect with another person that it is astonishing that one finds close friends at all. If I understand myself and you are similar to me in some deep ways, then you and I can connect. Further, it's my self-knowledge that gives me my vision of life. Part of the reason for this phenomenon is the fact that both friendship and art are additive.