“Best friend” is a term that seems to have been invented in the twentieth century, perhaps even in the second half of that century. My parents never used the term “best friend,” but my friends and I ...

A person’s social network can be surprisingly complex. Yet, we think we only need a romantic partner and a nuclear family. Maybe one good friend. Otherwise, those not legally or biologically fastened ...

Friendship is notoriously difficult to define. For Aristotle, friendship, or philia, is a virtue which is "most necessary with a view to living … for without friends no one would choose to live though ...