Between Philia, Amicitia and Friendship: Social Cement or Legal Rule?
摘要
Friendship has been celebrated in prose and verse, it has given rise to tales, texts and legends. Always permeated by other feelings such as loyalty and trust, friendship is a strong relationship that is not born and does not persist through blood ties or kinship. In fact, it is the “least natural” of the emotional bonds that a human being possesses: the least instinctive, less organic, biological and gregarious, yet it is the most indispensable. The bond of friendship is not the result of a need nor an organic determination: it is born from preference and choice.