... bilingual consciousness, he belongs to the circuituous movement of French prose while his friend Étienne de La Boétie belongs to the fixed forms of Latin poetry. Montaigne situates friendship within the environment of ancient moral philosophy, where it is regarded as ‘a kind of virtue, or implying virtue...

... in Italy and in Ionia. After paying dutiful tribute to Socrates as the founder of moral philosophy, Augustine commences his analysis of Plato with a brief biographical survey and with the claim that he was responsible for the threefold division of philosophy into physics, ethics, and logic. It also...