caa a22 4500 386364761 CHVBK 20180307111928.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0012217300015778 doi S0012217300015778 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0012217300015778 Stern-Gillet Suzanne Bolton Institute of Higher Education Epicurus and Friendship [Elektronische Daten] [Suzanne Stern-Gillet] Ever since classical times, both Greek and Roman, friendship as a philosophical topic has been on the wane. The only notable exception is Montaigne's essay which, however, owes much to classical treatments. This decline of philosophical interest in friendship is not easy to account for. Alasdair McIntyre's overall thesis in After Virtue seemingly affords him with a ready interpretation. The progressive atomization of society, together with the concurrent growth of individualism that characterizes the modern era, claims McIntyre, are responsible for the demotion of friendship from the public to the private sphere. Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1989 Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/2(1989), 275-288 0012-2173 28:2<275 1989 28 DIA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015778 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015778 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Stern-Gillet Suzanne Bolton Institute of Higher Education NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/2(1989), 275-288 0012-2173 28:2<275 1989 28 DIA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge