What makes a true friend? Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics outlines certain conditions for virtuous friendship, but he sets the bar high, and his estimation of women's capacity for friendship is low. This week we're putting Aristotle in dialogue with Mary Astell, an early modern (and proto-feminist) English philosopher who also wrote extensively on friendship.
Why time doesn't pass
Philosophy for tough times
Women philosophers in 19th century Germany
Neofeudalism: techno-lords and peasants
Obedience
Style wars pt 2: Scandals and hoaxes
Style wars pt 1: Postwar France and a new philosophical mode
The predicament of existence
Mary Midgley, public philosophy and plumbing
Intellectual humility
Freedom or liberty?
Philosophy, angst and hope
Music, taste and AI
The philosophy of twins
Philosophy, disability and the gut
Pornography and free speech
What are Australian philosophers thinking?
Queer vs the state
What is swearing?
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