Pretexts of Friendship. Introduction to Philosophical Counseling

In this essay I will bring together a number of pretexts related explicitly or implicitly to the theme of friendship – experiences and concepts (§ 1), case studies (§ 2), exercises (§ 3), and again patterns (§ 4), variations (§ 5), and styles (§ 6) – which raise significant issues that I will use as an introduction to philosophical counseling. The aim is an original introduction to philosophical counseling starting from philosophical counseling itself and to show concretely, I hope also effectively, what a pretext function means.