My friend Aryeh Kosman died yesterday. He was 85. Aryeh was a distinguished scholar, the author of many delightful essays on Plato and Aristotle, a charismatic teacher, a sweetheart. I met him at a dinner party some years ago when I was teaching at Haverford College, where he had worked for many years before his retirement. Immediately I was determined to be his friend; fortunately he was willing to be mine. Since he was older than me — older than my father even — and since he was far more accomplished, it could never be a friendship of equals; but it was a friendship all the same. He would show me things he’d written and I would show him things I’d written, and we’d argue about them and eat sushi.
What a beautiful tribute. May his memory be a blessing you, dear Ian.
Thank you for posting this, Ian.