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"Cicero, [is his dialogue on friendship where he talks about a friend of his who had recently died], discussed the reason why they were drawn to each. He remarks upon the fact that they were not drawn together out of need, [but rather] out of admiration for one another.
He wrote: ' Although many and great utilities resulted from our friendship, the cause of our mutual love did not proceed from the hope of what it might bring, for as we are beneficent and generous not in order to exact kindness in return, but are by nature inclined to be generous, so in my opinion, friendship is not to be sought for its wages but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.'
Cicero expresses that friendship springs from nature, and not from need, and by that he meant that it is recognized as good without qualification. There is nothing more lovable than virtue, [which is] the basis of the attraction between virtuous friends." —Prof. Jennifer Frey
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This lecture was given on November 17, 2021 at Texas A&M University.
About the speaker:
Jennifer A. Frey (University of South Carolina) received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana in 2000, and her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. In 2013 she was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago prior to taking up her current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at the University of South Carolina. Jennifer's research interests lie at the intersection of virtue ethics and action theory. She has publications in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Journal of Analytic Philosophy, and in several edited volumes. She is the recipient of several grants, including a $2.1 million project awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, titled "Virtue, Happiness, and Meaning in Life." She is currently at work on three separate book projects.
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