The Virtue Condition for True Friendship

This chapter explores Aristotle's viewpoint on true friendship between men and women, focusing on the conditions for achieving a character friendship based on virtue. It discusses how Aristotle believes that men and women possess different virtues, leading to an imbalanced love in marriage and the inability to attain true character friendship. The chapter also discusses the emergence of women's philosophical voices in the late 17th and early 18th century, exploring how increased literacy and access to ideas motivated women to engage in philosophical writing.