Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Platonic Philia and Political Order -- Taking Friendship Seriously -- Cicero's Distinctive Voice on Friendship -- The Luminous Path of Friendship -- A Companionship of Caritas -- Friendship in the Civic Order -- Plato and Montaigne -- Hobbes on Getting By with Little Help from Friends -- Social Friendship in the Founding Era -- It Is Not Good for Man to Be Alone -- Zarathustra and His Asinine Friends -- Friendship, Trust, and Political Order -- Contributors -- Index.