Michel de Montaigne, Essays - On Affectionate Relationships - Friendships

23/03/2025 15 min
Michel de Montaigne, Essays - On Affectionate Relationships - Friendships

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the Renaissance-era philosopher, critic, and essayist Michel De Montaigne's work Essays, specifically his essay On Affectionate Relationships

It focuses upon his discussion of friendship, in which he distinguishes between the fullest sort of friendship, which involves an interpenetration of wills and which is valued for its own sake, and the more common sorts of friendship which are less lasting, don't involve the whole person, and are for the sake of some other goal

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