1. The Three Components of Friend
... of the most important attributes. Bellah affirms that the traditional ideas of friendships consists of three essential components such as that "friends they must share a common commitment to the good." John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were friends that wrote to each other continuously but the letters stopped when they chose to do virtuous deeds on different political side. Even though Adams ... to be on different political sides for good, they remained friends after the republic's emerging party struggle. Their friendships grew as they "put their common concern for the public good ahead ...
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