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A good life: Friendship, Art and Truth

Author(s) -

Alexander Nehamas

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

conatus

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2653-9373

pISSN - 2459-3842

DOI - 10.12681/conatus.15992

Subject(s) - friendship , multitude , conversation , morality , epistemology , focus (optics) , sociology , point (geometry) , philosophy , social science , mathematics , physics , geometry , communication , optics

In September 2017 Alexander Nehamas kindly accepted our invitation to have a meeting in Athens in order to discuss several issues of philosophical interest; with his latest publication On Friendship (New York: Basic Books, 2016) as a starting point we soon moved over to a multitude of topics Nehamas has so far dealt with. The whole conversation spirals around the probably most challenging and demanding issue as far as practical philosophy is concerned – yet one every moral agent needs to provide an adequate answer to during his lifetime: Values. Do they exclusively belong to the domain of morality? Nehamas claims that “although moral values […] are important […], they are not the only values that determine whether a life is or is not worthwhile”. This view inevitably shifts the focus from individual values - even fundamental ones such as friendship, art and truth- to the real issue: What is a good life, after all?

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