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What Friendship is: The Three Main Types of Aristotelian Friendship | Professor Michael Gorman

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Aristotle's Three-Way Division of Friendship

Aristotle says that there are three main reasons why you would love someone. "Love is going to involve feelings, and it's going to involve benefiting other people," he writes. He uses this distinction to come up with his three-way division of the types of friendship.

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