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Do you feel like you're missing something important in your friendships?<br /><em>You probably are.</em></strong></span><br /><br /><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Men and women are made, created, for friendship - but not just with passing or casual acquaintances. We are designed for real, deep, lasting friendship of the highest kind. Without that friendship, we often feel unsatisfied, empty, or simply alone.</span><br /><br /><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Not All Friendships Are Equal</strong></span><br /><br /><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Did you know that there are different kinds of friendship? Dr. John Cuddeback, your professor for this course, describes the basic kinds of friendships, but he also shows you what friendship in the fullest sense really is - far more than being simply \"pals\" or \"BFF's.\" Professor Cuddeback shows that Aristotle s division of friendships into three kinds - utility, pleasure or virtue - has a pressing relevance for our lives today.</span><br /><br /><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>True Friends and Personal Virtue</strong></span><br /><br /><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Courage, fortitude, wisdom, charity... what can these virtues have to do with friendship? Being virtuous, says Aristotle, is how man becomes happy. If we want a real friendship, we must first become the kind of person one would want to be friends with.</span><br /><br /><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Professor Cuddeback issues a challenge to personal virtue to everyone who longs for abiding friendship. Find someone else who is also striving to grow in virtue - together you can form the kind of friendship God intends us to have.</span><br /><br /><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Ancient and Biblical Wisdom</strong></span><br /><br /><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In this course, Professor Cuddeback deftly weaves together the age-old wisdom of the Greeks and the fundamental teachings of Sacred Scripture to reveal the most rewarding of human achievements - being a friend. He takes the thoughts of the great philosopher Aristotle, the Angelic Doctor St. Thomas Aquinas, and the sublime teachings of Jesus Christ to illustrate the nature and requirements of true friendship.</span><br /><br /><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Join Professor Cuddeback to discover what friendship is, why we seek it, why good friends are so often hard to find, and how to make the friends (and be the friend) you've always desired.</span></div>\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Lectures</strong></span></div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>1. An Introduction to Happiness and Friendship<br /></strong></span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\"There is nothing so precious as a faithful friend.\" Take a look at the works of St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle to discover what friendship truly is and why we desire it so deeply.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>2. 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