Alex Scheitinger: Competitive Friends (Final Paper)
Anyone who knows me well would be reluctant to associate sports with me. Music, movies, and theatre: those are the…
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Alex Scheitinger: The Architecture of Friendship
Through an understanding of Alexander Nehamas’s writings on the nature of friendship, we may come to discover new fields in…
Alex Scheitinger: Against a Transactional View of Friendship
Proponents of neoliberalism, the dominant political and economic system of Europe and America, promote the age-old principles of laissez-faire capitalism…
Alex Scheitinger: Updated Friendship Resolution
“WHEREAS, friendship transcends ethnicity, gender, geographic boundaries, and political and religious affiliations” It is imperative that we build upon the…
Alex Scheitinger: Contemporary Philosophy and the Return to Friendship
In his groundbreaking book Friendship: A Central Moral Value philosopher Michael H. Mitias traces a genealogy of paradigms which has…
Alex Scheitinger: Characteristics of Friendship in Confucian, Christian, and Islamic Cultures
Confucian, Christian, and Islamic cultures have approached the notion of friendship with their own distinct concerns and priorities. Differences present…
Alex Scheitinger: Embracing Classical Friendship in an Era of Loneliness
The meaning of friendship espoused by Plato and Aristotle warrants a reanalysis in the twenty-first century. It can be said…
