"They cannot be neutral or naturalizable, nor can they be reduced to unity; they are 'pluralistic': 'each nation has its own concept of nation', and so forth."
"2. There are, then, three kinds of friendship, respectively founded, as we recall, on (1) virtue (this is primary friendship); (2) usefulness (for example, political friendship); and (3) pleasure."
"Through the sober aridity of his discourse, Aristotle thus describes a tragedy as much as a comedy, major and minor calculations: this irrepressible desire to overinvest in a friendship or a love, to count on a profit in renouncing the most disinterested virtue or generosity."
"He(Kant) writes: For love can be regarded as attraction and respect as repulsion, and if the principle of love bids friends to draw closer, the principle of respect requires them to stay at a proper distance from each other. This limitation on intimacy, which is expressed in the rule that even the b"