Summary All friendship requires some degree of association or community. Associations between fellow-citizens, fellow-voyagers, fellow-workers, fellow-tribesmen, etc., are usually built on some kind of agreement or mutual understanding pertaining to aims and duties, but friendship or love between members of a family falls into a special category and is itself […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter XII – Friendship within the FamilySummary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter XI – Friendship and Justice under Different Constitutions
Summary Each governmental form exhibits a form of friendship co-extensive with its conception of justice. Under perverted constitutions, the role of mutual friendship decreases in the same degree as that of justice. For example, the friendship of a king for his subjects expresses itself in his unselfish benevolence toward them, […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter XI – Friendship and Justice under Different ConstitutionsSummary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter X – Political Systems
Summary There are three true forms of political constitution and a corresponding number of corrupted forms: Monarchy, the best of the true constitutions, turns into tyranny when it is perverted. Both are rule by one man, but a king is concerned with the good of his subjects while a tyrant […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter X – Political SystemsSummary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter IX – Friendship and Justice in the State
Summary Friendship and justice deal with things and persons in the same way. Every community or association requires a conception of what is just between people and also involves some degree of mutual friendship, both conceived on the level that is required for people to live or work together in […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter IX – Friendship and Justice in the StateSummary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter VIII – Giving and Receiving Affection
Summary Most people prefer receiving to giving affection, and equate receiving affection and having many friends with honor or prestige. The essence of friendship, however, is giving affection. The relationship of mothers and children is a good example of this. It is typical of mothers to give more affection than […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter VIII – Giving and Receiving AffectionSummary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter VII – Friendship between Unequals
Summary There is another kind of friendship in which the parties are unequal (e.g., friendship between father and son, older and younger person, husband and wife, ruler and subject). These relationships vary depending on the differences between the parties (e.g., the relationship between parents and children is not the same […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter VII – Friendship between UnequalsSummary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter VI – Additional Observations on Friendship
Summary [Brief discussion of a few particular situations to illustrate the general points already made about friendship. These and all the remarks in the above chapters pertain only to friendships formed on a basis of equality.]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter VI – Additional Observations on FriendshipSummary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter V – Friendship as a Characteristic and an Activity
Summary Friendship is a permanent disposition expressed or realized in friendly activities. Affection can be felt even for inanimate objects, but the reciprocal affection which is the basis of friendship involves deliberate choice, and such choice involves the action of a disposition. Affection is an emotion, but friendship is a […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter V – Friendship as a Characteristic and an ActivitySummary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter IV – Comparison of Perfect and Imperfect Friendship
Summary The two inferior kinds of friendship described in Chapter III are less permanent than perfect friendship for many reasons, all of which depend on the kinds of utility or pleasure which provide their basis. Perfect friendship can only exist between good men, but the inferior kinds can exist between […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter IV – Comparison of Perfect and Imperfect FriendshipSummary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter III – The Three Kinds of Friendship
Summary There are three varieties of friendship, corresponding to the three objects of affection. The varieties of friendship can be distinguished by determining what kind of good is the object of both parties. Friendships based on mutual utility (e.g., two men are friendly because each can be useful to the […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Book VIII: Chapter III – The Three Kinds of Friendship