Contents: Plato, Lysis. Translated by Stanley Lombardo; Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Books VIII and IX), Rhetoric (II.4), Translated by Terence Irwin; Cicero: On Friendship (De Amicitia), Translated by Frank Copley; Seneca: On Philosophy and Friendship and On Grief for Lost Friends, Translated by R. M. Gummere; Aelred of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship (De Spiritali Amicitia, Book 1), Translated by Eugenia Laker, S.S.N.D.; Thomas Aquinas, Questions on Love and Charity (from Summa Theologiae), Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province; Montaigne: Of Friendship, Translated by Donald M. Frame; Francis Bacon: Of Friendship; Immanuel Kant: Lecture on Friendship, Translated by Louis Infield; Ralph Waldo Emerson: Friendship; Soren Kierkegaard: You Shall Love Your Neighbor (from Works of Love), Translated by Howard and Edna Hong; Elizabeth Telfer: Friendship; Bibliography.

Friendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due. Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers on the subject and collected them into a handsome and handy volume. . . . A splendid book! --M. M. Wartofsky, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Baruch College, City University of New York