Even with endless social scripts around romance, we hardly know what it means to be a good friend. In episode 114 of Overthink, Ellie and David reflect on the highs and lows of friendship, from their own bond to Montaigne’s intimate connection to Étienne de La Boétie. From Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics to today’s loneliness epidemic, they question what friends do, how they hold each other accountable, and the deep ways in which our vices and virtues are shaped by our friends. Plus, in the b...
Hello and welcome to Overthink, the podcast.
Where two friends who are also philosophy professors leverage our long term friendship into a hopefully engaging podcast for anyone
and everyone.
I am David Pena Guzman.
And I'm Ellie Anderson.
David, back in spring 2021, we did a podcast episode on friendship, but very few people listened to it.
This is back when we were a baby podcast, less than a year old, but moreover,
it was about friendship during COVID It was part of a series we did on relationships during COVID And so that's dated the episode quite a bit.
I feel like nobody wants to relive that time.
And if you are sitting there being like, okay, pandemic's not over, like, this podcast might still be relevant,
let me just say the numbers are telling a very different story because nobody is downloading that episode.
Yeah, count me among those who don't want to relive that episode as well.
But, I mean, since then, a number of people have asked us for an episode on friendship.
And so obviously there's a lot to say about this concept,
and I feel like the time has come for us to do a an episode on the topic that is just about the topic, without qualifiers.
But hey, if you want to relive what it was like to be friends during quarantine, go and check out that episode.
It has some great content.
Yeah, for today though, we were sort.
Of like working through some of the troubles we were having with friends during quarantine as well.
Like on that episode.