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”