Ideal Friendship, Actual Friends
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https://doi.org/10.12775/RF.2023.002Keywords
George Santayana, friendship, John Francis Stanley – 2nd Earl Russell, American philosophy, self-knowledge, life of reasonAbstract
Friendship, on George Santayana’s account, is a form of human society made possible by consciousness of ideals while simultaneously rooted in the experience of embodied creatures spontaneously drawn to each other. His philosophical and autobiographical writings on friendship (particularly his friendship with Frank Russell) exemplify a practice of cultivating wisdom and suggest how we can come to understand our own actual friendships and the opportunities for self-knowledge and sanity in them.
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