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…

- Alexander Nehamas

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…

- Alexander Nehamas

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 …

- Alexander Nehamas

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

- Alexander Nehamas

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…

- Alexander Nehamas

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…

- Alexander Nehamas

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 …

- Alexander Nehamas

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…

- Alexander Nehamas

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…

- Alexander Nehamas