
How Many Friends Should I Have? ‘A Lot,’ says Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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Aristotle's Teaching on Friendship
Aristotle: Friendship between men who are good and resemble one another according to their virtue. friendship of virtuous men comprehends not only good in an unqualified sense but also pleasure and utility, Aquinas says. As imperfect is related to perfect, we should commit to developing friendships of pleasure and utility because we wish to develop friendships of virtue," St. Thomas writes.
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