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So let's start with Aristotle. It's always good to start with Aristotle.

Aristotle, Greek philosopher, famous student of Plato, you've probably heard of him.

He wrote works on ethics and politics.

He invented biology, logic, and metaphysics.

He has a really brilliant and very influential discussion of friendship in the eighth and ninth

books of the Nicomachian ethics. The Nukmakian ethics consists of 10 books.

So two whole books to friendship.

So the first thing that I want to note is Aristotle talks about friendship

or they checked about any other thing in the Nicarmaccahian ethics.

So it seems important.

And the second thing that I want to mention is that if you look at contemporary

scholarship or contemporary

discussion of the Nkmakian ethics, you will find almost nothing on friendship.

So this is really interesting to me.

It's the thing that Aristotle talks about the most, and it's the thing that contemporary

philosophers discuss the least, even when they're analyzing the Nicomachian ethics.

It's like books eight and nine, I don't really know, what was going on there.

It's almost as if we're vaguely embarrassed or perplexed that Aristotle wasted so much time on

this sub-philosophical topic. So friendship, right, the love that exists between friends,

has been marginalized within contemporary ethical thought. And so there's a question about

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