PHLA11H3 Lecture 12: Friendship Part 1 Detailed Notes
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Friendship part 1: aristotle was a 3rd century bc greek philosopher and scientist. Plato and a tutor of alexander the great. What is friendship: we have an intrinsic concern for the good of another person, people have an intrinsic, not instrumental concern for another persons welfare. This would include things like love, affection etc: social bond: humans are bonded together, in families, relationships, countries, etc. There is a full range of social bonds that humans have. All humans are interconnected and are interrelated tone another: aristotle"s sense of friendships covers a wide range of bonds, not just the simple de nition we know of. The friendship exists because both parties experience something pleasurable: utility friendship: a and b have a reciprocal concern for each other"s good because they experience each other as useful. There are some people that eventually become deep friends.
