Reading Group

What Are Friends For?

What is friendship and what makes it so important? What makes someone a good friend and what do we owe to our friends? What can we do to maintain strong friendships over the course of our lives?

A reading group about the nature of friendship and the role that it plays in our lives.

Tuesdays | 6.00-7.30pm | Elm Library

Oct 24 | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (selections)
Oct 31 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship”
Nov 7 | Elizabeth Telfer, “Friendship”
Nov 14 | Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation (selections)

This reading group is open to all Yale students, undergraduate and graduate. Space is limited; sign up using the form below. For more information please contact Peter Wicks.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship”