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is a guy who's got the same enemies you do.

A friend is a guy who's got the same enemies you do.

is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. Ralph Waldo Emerson

is a person you go to when you require nothing.

When you require nothing, go to your friends. -German

is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience. Simon Sinek

is an overflowing spirit who gives out of excess and challenges out of love.

Our friend is an 'overflowing' spirit who gives out of excess and challenges out of love.

is at his best in moments of defeat and useless when one is trying to do something beyond his known powers.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. Henry Miller

is determined only in the encounter with the enemy and they are valued only insofar as they allow for success in the resulting war.

Who one's political 'friends' are is determined only in the encounter with the enemy, and they are valued only insofar as they allow for success in the resulting war. As Martin Jay puts it, 'the hated other [is] needed to create the solidarity of the homogeneous self.'(n5)(Norris 1998: .pdf)THE IDENTIFICATION OF FRIEND/ENEMY AS (1) EXISTENTIAL DECISION NOT ANTICIPATED, AND EVEN PRIOR TO THE LAW -IT SEPARATES OUT THE AUTONOMY OF THE POLITICAL The identification of friend and enemy is an existential decision which cannot be anticipated by law. Moreover, the political is not simply distinct from the legal but prior to it in that no system of norms can be developed or applied without a moment of decision that exceeds the regulation of those norms. (Norris 1998: .pdf) (Norris 1998: .pdf)FRIEND/ENEMY DEFINES A FORM OF LIFE IN WHICH GROUP IDENTITY IS VALUED ABOVE PHYSICAL EXISTENCE -His account of political authority, in particular, rests on an almost Hegelian understanding of the individual's relation to the community and one's own mortality. The friend/enemy criterion defines a particular form of life, one in which group identity is valued above physical existence.(n7) (Norris 1998: .pdf)SCHMITT IS CONCERNED WITH THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT OF 'ONE'S OWN WAY OF LIFE' As Heinrich Meier notes, Schmitt's imagination reacts to an attack from without... it does not pursue aggressive action of its own.(n9) Indeed, Schmitt himself at one point defines the existential quality of war in precisely defensive terms: 'If physical destruction of human life is not motivated by an existential threat to one's own way of life, then it cannot be justified.'(n10) (Norris 1998: .pdf)THE THREAT OF PHYSICAL DEATH: POLITICAL ACTIONS AND MOTIVES CAN BE REDUCED TO 'FRIENDS AND ENEMIES' -THE FRIEND/ENEMY DESTINATION RECEIVES ITS REAL MEANING IN THE POSSIBILITY OF PHYSICAL KILLING That all said, interpretations of Schmitt that center on his alleged 'occasional' belligerence remain plausible, because of the stress he places on the threat of physical death implicit in the encounter with the enemy. It is this, he argues, that establishes the existential independence of the political: 'The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy'... and, 'The friend, enemy, and combat concepts receive their real meaning precisely because they refer to the real possibility of physical killing.'(n12) (Norris 1998: .pdf)THE ENEMY IS NOT SOMEONE HATED -HE IS SOLEY THE PUBLIC ENEMY'The enemy,' Schmitt writes, 'is not merely any competitor or just any partner of a conflict in general. He is also not the private adversary whom one hates. An enemy exist only when, at least potentially, one fighting collectivity of people confronts a similar collectivity. The enemy is solely the public enemy . . . .'(n15) (Norris 1998: .pdf)FRIEND AND ENEMY HAVE (1) FORMAL (2) TECHNICAL MEANINGS -PUBLIC FRIEND VS. PRIVATE FRIENDAs one of the criteria of the political, 'friend,' like 'enemy,' has a formal, almost technical meaning. Just as Schmitt argues that the public enemy is conceptually distinct from the private enemy, whom one hates, so is his public friend distinct from the private friend, whom one loves. (Norris 1998: .pdf)FRIENDSHIP -IN STARK CONTRAST TO ARISTOTELIAN AND POPULAR CONCEPTS OF FRIENDSHIP, IT IS NOT EVEN NECESSARY THAT THEY KNOW ONE ANOTHER -ONLY THAT THEY SHARE A 'WAY OF LIFE' Indeed, in stark contrast to both the Aristotelian and the popular concepts of friendship, it is not necessary that those people who share a relation of political friendship even know one another. What is essential is that there be a shared commitment to their way of life. As Schmitt makes clear, that form of life might be defined in any number of ways: 'All concepts, including the concept of mind, are pluralistic and can only be understood in terms of concrete political existence. Just as every nation has its own concept of nation and fin

is kind to one another's hopes and cherish one another's dreams.

Friends . . . They are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other's dreams.

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