PHIL 1620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unreliable Narrator, Michel De Montaigne
16 Jan 2018
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Refer to him as unreliable narrator (he says i don"t remember or i heard this from someone ) Unreliable narrators lie and manipulate the truth. There are two argumentative threads in of friendship . 2) the other, montaigne is making a claim to rightly understanding la boeties intentions. Montaigne is not providing traditional argumentative text and it is more impressionistic, ambiguous and self-e acing. There is nothing to which nature seems to have inclined us more than to society . An important feature of society is friendship. Montaigne and machiavelli give us an account of society that takes transindividual (relationship between two individuals rather than starting with one person) relationships to be primary. Then, friendship is di erent from natural, social, hospitable relationships described by the ancients. Montaigne begins with a negative de nition of real friendship . Real friendship is not motivated by pleasure or pro t. Friendship cannot be compared to a ection for women .
