
Special Themes in Friendship - Aristotle's Ethics | Professor Michael Gorman
The Thomistic Institute
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Aristotle's Theory of Friendship
In a friendship between unequals, you're going to have this extra factor going on in which they give and receive different things. Aristotle says that there are limits to the extent to which honor and praise and thanks can balance out inequality. If it goes too far, then it's not really a friendship. So try to think of a case in which two people have a friendship but one of them actually contributes more over time.
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