Love and Friendship Across Cultures

Soraj Hongladarom is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Chulalongkorn University. He is also President of the Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand. His research mainly focuses on problems arising at the intersections of technology and culture, especially information technology. He is the author of The Ethics of AI: A Buddhist Viewpoint (Lexington Books), as well as The Online Self, and A Buddhist Theory of Privacy, both published by Springer. Jeremiah Joven B. Joaquin is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. He has published works on logic, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, gender studies, and experimental philosophy. He is the current President of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines, and the founding Secretary General of the Union of Societies and Associations of Philosophy in the Philippines.

• HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: ANCIENT.- Aristotle and Confucians on Friendship.- Aristotle’s and Buddha’s Notion of Happiness: A Comparative Study.- Friendship in Aristotle and Buddhism: Confluences and Divergences.- Philia and Agape: Ancient Greek Ethics of Friendship and Christian Theology of Love.- Towards a Confucian Ethics of Humane Online Relations.- Historical Perspectives: Modern and Contemporary.- When Pompey’s Elephants Trumpeted for Mercy: Levinas and Solidarity for the Animal Face.- The Good in Articulation: Describing the Co-Constitution of Self, Practice, and Value.- Nietzsche on Actively Forgetting one’s Promise.- Love as an Act of Resistance: Bell Hooks on Love.- Conceptual Analyses.- Posthumous Love as a Rational Virtue.- Awareness and Aloneness as Foundations of Love and Friendship.- Romantic Love as a Love Story.- For a Moment or for Eternity: A Metaphysics of Perduring Lovers.