Friendship East and West Elizabeth Pennefather-O'Brien By analysing the contents of

By analysing the contents of the Cosmographia it attempts to recreate how the world of the sixteenth century appeared to a scholar living in Basel

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called "mathematical" Pythagoreanism

it preserved domestic peace and provided the conditions for social

the semantics of propositional attitude attributions

Friendship East and West Elizabeth Pennefather-O'Brien By analysing the contents ofThere has been renewed interest in the concept of friendship in contemporary philosophy. Many of the existing treatments of the topic have been limited to Western notions of friendship, yet there is a far wider perspective available to us through an examination of a more extended cultural examination of the topic. Cultures other than those in Christian Europe have had important and interesting observations to make on the nature of friendship, and in