In this episode, Evan Sutter explores friendship as something much bigger than a social or psychological problem. If we're interested in the good life, what role should friendship actually play?
The conversation moves through:
Why friendships change as our lives change
Whether we are supposed to maintain every friendship we've ever had
The difference between friendship, belonging and solitude
What ancient philosophers such as Epicurus understood about friendship
How ambition and work can quietly crowd relationships out
Whether the lives we build determine who gets to be part of them
Why place, ritual and community matter
The relationship between friendship and attention
What mortality can reveal about the people we spend our lives with
Whether some friendships belong to particular seasons of our lives
And ultimately, what friendship is actually for
Perhaps friendship isn't simply about finding the right people.
Perhaps it's also about building a life in which friendship has somewhere to live.
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