Abstract
Focusing on Aristotle’s ‘Nikomachean Ethics’, Cicero’s ‘Laelius On Friendship’, Aelred of Rievaulx’s ‘On Spiritual Friendship’ and Michel de Montaigne’s ‘Essay on Friendship’, the following essay analyses the relationship of friendship and fraternality in premodern discourses. With reference to Jacques Derrida’s book ‘Politics of Friendship’, the essay suggests that the traditionally high- ly praised intimacy between male friends is based on the marginalisation of those who cannot be brothers because of their descent: women and strangers.
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