Special Themes in Friendship - Aristotle's Ethics | Professor Michael Gorman
The Thomistic Institute
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The Different Types of Friendships
In a friendship of utility, each friend is getting about the same amount of benefit out of the relationship. In friendships of pleasure, each of the friends enjoys the outings about as much as the other. Aristotle says if equality is disturbed too much, there's going to be squabbles and disagreements. The inequality can take various forms, right? So sometimes some people are just more virtuous than other people.
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