ABSTRACT
This chapter explores three ways friendship can have value or enrich our lives. It can promote or embody generic goods such as pleasure and virtue, ones also found outside friendship. It can intensify certain goods, which then have more value within friendship than outside it. And it can embody distinctive goods, ones found only or especially in friendship. Different accounts of the value of friendship emphasize different ones among these types of value, but a complete account may include them all.
