On Truth and Friendship

“Though we love the truth and our friends, reverence is due to the truth first.”

-Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

I have been reading Aristotle’s classic work Nicomachean Ethics for my Ancient and Medieval Ethics class. This is my second time through the work, though I am getting much more out of it on this read through. Aristotle makes many important distinctions even just in the first book of this work, but one sentence stood out and I decided to write a bit about it.

Moral Context: Preliminary Thoughts

While this post’s title may lead the reader to assume there will be at least one more post in this series, that is not necessarily the case. In this instance, when I say ‘preliminary,’ I simply mean that I have not yet done the research for my paper that will be on this topic, and so am not committing myself to the ideas or arguments expressed in this post. These are exploratory, and I stand on them less firmly than most of my posts, though I still hope they are at least sort of true.