When I first encountered Veeresh’s emphasis on friendship at the Humaniversity, I must admit I found it a bit weak. Shouldn’t this all be about love, not simply friendship?
We imagine that friendship is something simple and accessible, something the vast majority of human beings have plenty of experience and little difficulty with.
I am not quite sure where this dumbed-down, commoditized notion of friendship comes from, especially bearing in mind the emphasis on it in the classical philosophical tradition, most famously in Cicero’s De Amicitia. Continue reading “Friendship, and sannyas”