->Friendship ->Academics ->A teacher in a university or other institute of higher education ->Religion promotes friendship. For example it is said to "love thy neighbour as thyself"

Salam, Mariah! ultimate good -- "ultimate" here means "highest" or "best" (We rarely use this word correctly, at least in the USA. It should mean "last" when talking about a series of events or "furthest" when talking about a point in a journey.) . "good" means an attainment or achievement of a society. The text says that philosophers consider friendship to be the greatest achievement possible for mankind. major religions -- Everyone will disagree on what religions are included here, but the text probably means all religions that have had a lasting influence on history and culture around the world. I would say the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), those derived from India (Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism), and those derived from China (Confucianism). Aristotle’s highest goal for men -- like "ultimate good" above, this refers directly to friendship. I would say it is used here to say that even Aristotle put great value on friendship. nature of freedom -- here the text says that social philosophers (I would say examples would be people like Hobbes and Rousseau) have spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to be truly free but very little time thinking about the importance of friendship among people academics -- this refers to scholars or philosophers (those who think about social values in the abstract, in contrast to politicians whose actions implement social policy) I think that the text is saying that "friendship" (the text uses the idea of friendship broadly, and in my opinion it means "fraternity" or "the way people should behave towards on another" here) is itself a social value or goal. Religions, just as they promote other social values, promote "friendship" in this sense.