Very early in his famously-touching essay about Etienne de La Boetie–the most emotionally powerful of his works–Montaigne quotes Aristotle on the subject of friendship. I’m going to start my essay with a long section from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics Book 8, because I believe this background is essential to understanding what Montaigne is trying to accomplish: … Continue reading Montaigne, La Boetie and Servitude: The Complicated Friendship