PHIL 1101 : Aristotle- Nichomachean Ethics (Parts of Book VIII & IX).docx
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Friendship of pleasure: based on mutual good feeling, we are friends with these people because of the pleasure we feel around them, our affection is not so much directed at them as the pleasure they bring, come and go as pleasure comes and goes, ex: people you are friends with because they make you laugh, are a good cook, drinking buddy, etc. Friendship based on virtue: we associate with someone because we respect and admire them (we think they have character virtue, we are friends because of who they are, not just what they bring, the affection is genuinely for the other person, don"t come and go but they are long lasting, they are rare and take time to develop but are some secure, we are not likely to have many of these kinds of friends, to develop friendships like this, we must live with or spend time with the other, cannot be friends with a viscious person.