Rebeca Sandu
Jul 27, 2017 · 1 min read

Graham Duncan, St Mary’s Community Centre

You hint that making relationships is like work — “akin to the construction of meaning in life”. But most people don’t put much effort into it.

Rebeca Sandu

This is an interesting idea. The amount of value we attach to and work we invest in our relationships varies from person to person and from place to place. For many- most?- people relationships matter more than work. I would posit that we are ‘hard wired’ to relate, something that might be explored later in this conversation. But some social contexts get in the way of this inner drive. The primacy of the individual over the social in the era of neo-liberal economics might be one example. The point is, I believe where Aristotle takes us, and where perhaphs the brian science will follow is to say that most people seek both perfect and utilitarian friendships. Provide the right context and relationships will blossom. In the wrong context they wither.

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