This perspective was fulfilled by Honors 495: Special Topics: Love, Sex, and Friendship. This was my first philosophy class so it was tricky to understand the texts that I was reading because I had no practice in reading that kind of literature. However, I enjoyed reading the book Symposium by Plato and The Four Loves from C.S. Lewis. My favorite topic was friendship because it was eye opening to see how friendships are typically first formed and how to keep a successful friendship. Lewis’s book covers this with him saying that there must be a matrix of friendship that includes people doing similar activities. I believe that I will be able to build better relationships based on the information I learned in this class, as well as understand the relationships I currently have. For our final project we could either write a wedding toast about love, or a letter to a friend who is moving away and is afraid of making new friends. I chose the friendship path because it was similar circumstances to my best friend and I going to separate colleges. It used three of the texts we read in class and five outside articles that we had to find. It was a three page paper that used foot notes for the quotations.

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