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Four Kinds of Happiness & Four Kinds of Friendship | Prof. Christopher Kaczor

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Aristotle's Idea of Friendship

Aristotle thought that friendship involved shared activity, right? So if you're a friend of virtue, you're going to share an emotional life with the person. Aquinas agrees but thinks God is far above us and we could never become friends with God on our own initiative. Any more than I could become friends with a pope or a president or a prime minister on my own initiative,.

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