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Friendship in the Renaissance is an intensive bond between men, within the societas of humanity, defined most successfully by Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics. This article rehearses definitions of friendship (and their critique) and gives an account of how these definitions were diffused in early modern culture.
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Langer, U. (2016). Friendship. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_195-1
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