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"Friend" Is A Verb, Dylan E. Wittkower
"Friend" Is A Verb, Dylan E. Wittkower
Philosophy Faculty Publications
An argument against the Aristotelian emphasis on formal and final causes in understanding friendship, and in favor of efficient and material causes. Attempts to establish that social media communications constitute a secondary literacy in the context of a shared asynchronous experience at a distance, and addresses "the sandwich problem:" how we can charitably account for the practice of photographing and sharing one's lunch.