Academic Texts on Friendship

This collection contains academic writings on the subject of friendship from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Thse writings include, for now, mainly dissertations and disputations based on Aristotle's discussion in 'Nicomachean Ethics' VIII and IX as well as Cicero's dialogue 'Laelius'. The collection is part of the project "Virtue and Sociability. Teaching Friendship in Early Modern Schools and Universities, 1518-1648", based at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences.