This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthful….

In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on and e….

To find something beautiful is to hope that your life will be better if that is a part of it. Unfortunately, the promise of a better life that beauty….

My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or less safely, try different….

To emphasize the importance of beauty is to connect art again to emotion and desire. To find something or someone beautiful is not simply to apprecia….

My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very reason, there is no behavi….

It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the philosophical tradition deriving from ….

Beauty can be as dangerous as evil can be beautiful. But that is just another aspect of the double edge of non-moral values. Both beauty and friends ….

So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … insepara….